#425 Process Cloud Service --> REST API -- Initiating a process

Note: Nov 23rd 2015: 
Current active release version for PCS Rest api is bpm/api/3.0


Firstly, a very big thanks you to my colleague Ralf M. for his input here.

Here is my process -

I pick up the wsdl from the management page in Composer -

I use this to create a new project in SOAP-UI.

Here is my request -

Here is the task in Workspace -

Now to the construction of the REST call -

I discussed in a previous post how one can use the REST api

to retrieve processDefId, serviceName and operation.

Now to the payload parameter -

I use the soap-ui request as the basis for the payload value.

Here it is again -

Here is my .json file -

You can download it here

I use ns1 and ns2 instead of nial and _qy

Regarding escape characters - I used this site to validate.

Here is the curl request -

curl -u phillip:welcome1 -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "Accept:application/json" -X POST -d @NCCreateInstance.json http://YourCloudInstance/bpm/api/1.0/processes

I check in Workspace -

Simple stuff!