The REST API is built using Spring MVC. Please check the Spring MVC documentation on how to create new Java beans to implement REST endpoints.
To build against the REST logic of Process Services and its specific dependencies, add following dependency to your Maven pom.xml file:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.activiti</groupId>
<artifactId>activiti-app-rest</artifactId>
<version>${suite.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
The bean needs to be in the com.activiti.extension.rest package to be found.
A very simple example is shown below. Here, the Process Services TaskService is injected and a custom response is fabricated. Of course, this logic can be anything.
package com.activiti.extension.rest;
import com.activiti.domain.idm.User;
import com.activiti.security.SecurityUtils;
import org.activiti.engine.TaskService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/rest/my-rest-endpoint")
public class MyRestEndpoint {
@Autowired
private TaskService taskService;
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/json")
public MyRestEndpointResponse executeCustonLogic() {
User currentUser = SecurityUtils.getCurrentUserObject();
long taskCount = taskService.createTaskQuery().taskAssignee(String.valueOf(currentUser.getId())).count();
MyRestEndpointResponse myRestEndpointResponse = new MyRestEndpointResponse();
myRestEndpointResponse.setFullName(currentUser.getFullName());
myRestEndpointResponse.setTaskCount(taskCount);
return myRestEndpointResponse;
}
private static final class MyRestEndpointResponse {
private String fullName;
private long taskCount;
// Getters and setters
}
}
Create a jar containing this class, and add it to the classpath.
A class like this in the com.activiti.extension.rest package will be added to the rest endpoints for the application (e.g. for use in the UI), which use the cookie approach to determine the user. The url will be mapped under /app. So, if logged in into the UI of the BPM Suite, one could go to http://localhost:8080/activiti-app/app/rest/my-rest-endpoint and see the result of the custom rest endpoint:
{"fullName":" Administrator","taskCount":8}
To add a custom REST endpoint to the public REST API, protected by basic authentication, a similar class should be placed in the com.activiti.extension.api package:
package com.activiti.extension.api;
import com.activiti.domain.idm.User;
import com.activiti.security.SecurityUtils;
import org.activiti.engine.TaskService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/enterprise/my-api-endpoint")
public class MyApiEndpoint {
@Autowired
private TaskService taskService;
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/json")
public MyRestEndpointResponse executeCustonLogic() {
User currentUser = SecurityUtils.getCurrentUserObject();
long taskCount = taskService.createTaskQuery().taskAssignee(String.valueOf(currentUser.getId())).count();
MyRestEndpointResponse myRestEndpointResponse = new MyRestEndpointResponse();
myRestEndpointResponse.setFullName(currentUser.getFullName());
myRestEndpointResponse.setTaskCount(taskCount);
return myRestEndpointResponse;
}
private static final class MyRestEndpointResponse {
private String fullName;
private long taskCount;
// Getters and setters
}
}
Note that the endpoint needs to have /enterprise as first element in the url, as this is configured in the SecurityConfiguration to be protected with basic authentication (more specific, the api/enterprise/* is).
Which can be accessed like the regular API:
> curl -u admin@app.activiti.com:password http://localhost:8080/activiti-app/api/enterprise/my-api-endpoint
> {"fullName":" Administrator","taskCount":8}
Note: Due to classloading, it is currently not possible to put jars with these custom rest endpoints in the global or common classpath (for example tomcat/lib for Tomcat). They should be put in the web application classpath (for example WEB-INF/lib).