Using Rest API in spring boot app (Engine ver. 7.1)

Flowable Engine
1

Hi there,

i am new with Flowable. I can’t find any valid documentation for using Flowable API Rest in my Spring Boot application to handle my own engine.

any help will be appreciated.
thanks

2

hello, is easy, just add this dependecies to your pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.flowable</groupId>
    <artifactId>flowable-spring-boot-starter-rest</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.flowable</groupId>
    <artifactId>flowable-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    <version>7.1.0</version>
</dependency>

and for custom configuration, create a @Configuration class like

@Configuration
public class FlowableConfig {
    @Bean
    public ProcessEngineConfigurationConfigurer processEngineConfigurer() {
        return processEngineConfiguration -> {
           
        };
    }
}

i hope its work :slight_smile:

4 
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>3.2.0</version>
		<relativePath />
	</parent>

	<groupId>org.flowable</groupId>
	<artifactId>holidayrequest</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

	<properties>
		<java.version>17</java.version>
		<flowable.version>7.1.0</flowable.version>
	</properties>


	<dependencies>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.flowable</groupId>
			<artifactId>flowable-spring-boot-starter-rest</artifactId>
			<version>${flowable.version}</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
			<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
		</dependency>


	</dependencies>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>

</project>
5

package flowable.demo;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class MyApplication {

public static void main(String[] args) {
	SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
}

}

6

It’s not working still, as you can see it’s a minimal project

7

i have a few questions
Is there any log i could check to see if the flowable rest controllers are scanned?
what’s the default swagger url?

thnaks guys

8

Got the problem.
Obsolete documentation.

Url definitions are wrong. for instance:

List of processes definitions reports: ```
GET repository/process-definitions
but is process-api/repository/process-definitions

and this for all.

please fix it!

thanks anyway!

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