Flowable.modeler.app.deployment-api-url Not working

amryadam · October 2, 2023, 1:21pm

i am trying to make Flowable UI publish an app to Flowable REST application using
flowable.modeler.app.deployment-api-url Property as described in docs

github.com

flowable/flowable-engine/blob/flowable-6.8.0/docs/userguide/src/en/bpmn/ch14-Applications.adoc

[[flowableApps]]

== Flowable applications

Flowable provides several ui web applications to demonstrate and leverage the functionality provided by the Flowable project:

* Flowable IDM: an Identity Management application that provides single sign-on authentication functionality for all the Flowable UI applications, and, for users with the IDM administrative privilege, it also provides functionality to manage users, groups and privileges.
* Flowable Modeler: an application that allows users with modeler privileges to model processes, forms, decision tables and application definitions.
* Flowable Task: a runtime task application that provides functionality to start process instances, edit task forms, complete tasks and query on tasks and process instances.
* Flowable Admin: an administrative application that allows users with admin privilege to query the BPMN, DMN, form and content engines and provides several options to change process instances, tasks, jobs and so on. The admin application connects to the engines through the REST API that is deployed together with the Flowable Task app and the Flowable REST app.

The Flowable IDM is required for all other apps to enable authentication. The WAR files for each app can be deployed to the same servlet container (such as Apache Tomcat), but can also be deployed on different servlet containers. Because the same cookie is used for authentication with each app, the apps need to run on the same domain.

Flowable also provides the `flowable-rest.war` which contains the Flowable REST API. More about this can be read in the <<restApiChapter, REST API>> chapter.

The apps are Spring Boot 2.0 based, which means that that the WAR files are actually executable and can be run as a normal standalone applications.
See  https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/build-tool-plugins-maven-plugin.html#build-tool-plugins-maven-packaging[The Executable Jar Format] in the Spring Boot reference documentation.


[[uiAppInstallation]]

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but when running Flowable UI , i get this error

2023-10-02 15:49:22.955  INFO 21988 --- [      Thread-15] o.f.j.s.i.a.AcquireTimerJobsRunnable     : starting to acquire async jobs due for engine bpmn
2023-10-02 15:49:22.955  INFO 21988 --- [      Thread-16] o.f.j.s.i.a.ResetExpiredJobsRunnable     : starting to reset expired jobs for engine bpmn
2023-10-02 15:49:22.992  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.flowable.ui.idm.conf.IdmBootstrapper   : No admin user found, initializing default entities
2023-10-02 15:49:23.068  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.f.ui.task.conf.TaskBootstrapper        : Migrated 0 app deployments
2023-10-02 15:49:23.069  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.f.u.a.d.g.MinimalDataGenerator         : Verifying if minimal data is present
2023-10-02 15:49:23.082  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.f.u.a.d.g.MinimalDataGenerator         : No server configurations found, creating default server configurations
2023-10-02 15:49:23.093  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.f.u.application.FlowableUiApplication  : Started FlowableUiApplication in 15.508 seconds (JVM running for 42.35)
2023-10-02 15:49:23.116 ERROR 21988 --- [           main] o.s.b.c.p.m.PropertiesMigrationListener  :
The use of configuration keys that are no longer supported was found in the environment:

Property source 'flowableDefaultConfig: [classpath:/flowable-default.properties]':
        Key: flowable.modeler.app.deployment-api-url
                Line: 19
                Reason: Property is not used anymore.


Please refer to the release notes or reference guide for potential alternatives.

2023-10-02 15:49:23.126  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Initializing Servlet 'Flowable IDM App Servlet'
2023-10-02 15:49:23.237  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Completed initialization in 111 ms
2023-10-02 15:49:23.238  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Initializing Servlet 'Flowable Admin App'
2023-10-02 15:49:23.484  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Completed initialization in 246 ms
2023-10-02 15:49:23.485  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Initializing Servlet 'Flowable Modeler App Servlet'
2023-10-02 15:49:23.655  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Completed initialization in 170 ms
2023-10-02 15:49:23.655  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Initializing Servlet 'Flowable Modeler App API Servlet'
2023-10-02 15:49:23.705  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Completed initialization in 50 ms
2023-10-02 15:49:23.705  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Initializing Servlet 'Flowable IDM App API Servlet'
2023-10-02 15:49:23.759  INFO 21988 --- [           main] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Completed initialization in 54 ms

kevin.klever · October 3, 2023, 9:49am

Hello @amryadam,
i think this is because the new prefixes:

amryadam · October 4, 2023, 8:56am

Thank for reply @kevin.klever
the docs refers for migration from Angular-based Design to React-based Design , but i tried it anyway but it didn’t work

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