Method

POST

POST /process-definition/key/{key}/submit-form (starts the latest version of the process definition which belongs to no tenant)

POST /process-definition/key/{key}/tenant-id/{tenant-id}/submit-form (starts the latest version of the process definition for tenant)

Parameters

A JSON object with the following properties:

|value|The variable's value. For variables of type , the serialized value has to be submitted as a String value.
For variables of type File the value has to be submitted as Base64 encoded string.
|type|The value type of the variable.|valueInfo| A JSON object containing additional, value-type-dependent properties.
For serialized variables of type Object, the following properties can be provided:

• filename: The name of the file. This is not the variable name but the name that will be used when downloading the file again.

• mimetype: The MIME type of the file that is being uploaded.

• encoding: The encoding of the file that is being uploaded.
  The following property can be provided for all value types:

• transient: Indicates whether the variable should be transient or not. See for more informations.
  |Name|Description
  |——-
  |value|The variable's value. For variables of type Object, the serialized value has to be submitted as a String value.
  For variables of type File the value has to be submitted as Base64 encoded string.

|type|The value type of the variable.
|valueInfo| A JSON object containing additional, value-type-dependent properties.
For serialized variables of type Object, the following properties can be provided:

• objectTypeName: A string representation of the object's type name.

• serializationDataFormat: The serialization format used to store the variable.
  For serialized variables of type , the following properties can be provided:

• encoding: The encoding of the file that is being uploaded.
  The following property can be provided for all value types:

• transient: Indicates whether the variable should be transient or not. See documentation for more informations.
  |business key|A JSON object containing the business key the process is to be initialized with. The business key uniquely identifies the process instance in the context of the given process definition.

Result

This method returns no content.

Response Codes

Example

POST /process-definition/aProcessDefinitionId/submit-form

POST /process-definition/key/aProcessDefinitionKey/submit-form

{"links":[{"method": "GET", "href":"http://localhost:8080/rest-test/process-instance/anId","rel":"self"}],
"id":"anId",
"definitionId":"aProcessDefinitionId",
"businessKey":"myBusinessKey",
"suspended":false}