How to retrieve Activiti task-form using REST?

Question

I am using activiti community version 6.0. I have gone through the documentation but cannot see a REST API to retrieve task-form.

I noticed Activiti uses following request url to get the form definitions:

http://localhost:8080/activiti-app/app/rest/task-forms/{taskId}

I tried using this url along with a restTemplate to access the task forms and resulted in 401 error code.

@Service
public class GetTaskForm {

String baseURL = "http://localhost:8080/activiti-app/app/rest/task-forms/";

public void getTaskForm(String taskId){
    String taskURL =  baseURL + taskId;
    RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
    String taskForm = restTemplate.getForObject(taskURL, String.class);
    System.out.println(taskForm);
 }
}

What would be the best way to achieve this?

What happens if you send some authentication details along with the request? — Gagravarr
I tried calling the same url using postman with basic authorisation and didn't work. — BlueStar

vikash vikash · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-30T06:15:27

Refer this documentation to get task form and if you are sending your request from outside of activiti then as Snickers3192 said you have to pass activiti authorization header in the request.

How to retrieve Activiti task-form using REST?

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