Post Deployment

Creates a deployment.

Security Consideration

Deployments can contain custom code in form of scripts or EL expressions to customize process behavior. This may be abused for remote execution of arbitrary code. See the section on security considerations for custom code in the user guide for details.

Method

POST /deployment/create

Parameters

Request Body

A multipart form submit with the following parts:

Form Part Name	Content Type	Description
deployment-name	text/plain	The name for the deployment to be created.
enable-duplicate-filtering	text/plain	A flag indicating whether the process engine should perform duplicate checking for the deployment or not. This allows you to check if a deployment with the same name and the same resouces already exists and if true, not create a new deployment but instead return the existing deployment. The default value is `false`.
deploy-changed-only	text/plain	A flag indicating whether the process engine should perform duplicate checking on a per-resource basis. If set to `true`, only those resources that have actually changed are deployed. Checks are made against resources included previous deployments of the same name and only against the latest versions of those resources. If set to `true`, the option `enable-duplicate-filtering` is overridden and set to `true`.
deployment-source	text/plain	The source for the deployment to be created.
tenant-id	text/plain	The tenant id for the deployment to be created.
*	application/octet-stream	The binary data to create the deployment resource. It is possible to have more than one form part with different form part names for the binary data to create a deployment.

Result

A JSON object corresponding to the DeploymentWithDefinitions interface in the engine. Its properties are as follows:

Name	Value	Description
links	List	Link to the newly created deployment with `method`, `href` and `rel`.
id	String	The id of the deployment.
name	String	The name of the deployment.
source	String	The source of the deployment.
tenantId	String	The tenant id of the deployment.
deploymentTime	String	The time when the deployment was created.
deployedProcessDefinitions	Object	A JSON Object containing a property for each of the process definitions, which are successfully deployed with that deployment. The key is the process definition id, the value is a JSON Object corresponding to the process definition, which is defined in the Process Definition resource.
deployedCaseDefinitions	Object	A JSON Object containing a property for each of the case definitions, which are successfully deployed with that deployment. The key is the case definition id, the value is a JSON Object corresponding to the case definition, which is defined in the Case Definition resource.
deployedDecisionDefinitions	Object	A JSON Object containing a property for each of the decision definitions, which are successfully deployed with that deployment. The key is the decision definition id, the value is a JSON Object corresponding to the decision definition, which is defined in the Decision Definition resource.
deployedDecisionRequirementsDefinitions	Object	A JSON Object containing a property for each of the decision requirements definitions, which are successfully deployed with that deployment. The key is the decision requirements definition id, the value is a JSON Object corresponding to the decision requirements definition, which is defined in the Decision Requirements Definition resource.

Response Codes

Code	Media type	Description
200	application/json	Request successful.
400	application/json	In case one of the bpmn resources cannot be parsed. See the Introduction for the error response format.

Example

Request

Post data for a new deployment:

POST /deployment/create

--28319d96a8c54b529aa9159ad75edef9
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="deployment-name"

aName
--28319d96a8c54b529aa9159ad75edef9
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="enable-duplicate-filtering"

true
--28319d96a8c54b529aa9159ad75edef9
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="deployment-source"

process application
--28319d96a8c54b529aa9159ad75edef9
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"; filename="test.bpmn"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bpmn2:definitions ...>
  <!-- BPMN 2.0 XML omitted -->
</bpmn2:definitions>
--28319d96a8c54b529aa9159ad75edef9--

Response

Status 200.

{
    "links": [
        {
            "method": "GET",
            "href": "http://localhost:38080/rest-test/deployment/aDeploymentId",
            "rel": "self"
        }
    ],
    "id": "aDeploymentId",
    "name": "aName",
    "source": "process application",
    "deploymentTime": "2013-01-23T13:59:43.000+0200",
    "tenantId": null,
    "deployedProcessDefinitions": {
        "aProcDefId": {
            "id": "aProcDefId",
            "key": "aKey",
            "category": "aCategory",
            "description": "aDescription",
            "name": "aName",
            "version": 42,
            "resource": "aResourceName",
            "deploymentId": "aDeploymentId",
            "diagram": "aResourceName.png",
            "suspended": true,
            "tenantId": null,
            "versionTag": null
        }
    },
    "deployedCaseDefinitions": null,
    "deployedDecisionDefinitions": null,
    "deployedDecisionRequirementsDefinitions": null
}

Response on Parse Errors

Status 400.

{
	"type": "ParseException",
	"message": "ENGINE-09005 Could not parse BPMN process. Errors: Exclusive Gateway 'ExclusiveGateway_1' has outgoing sequence flow 'SequenceFlow_0' without condition which is not the default flow.",
	"details": {
		"invoice.bpmn": {
			"errors": [
				{
					"message": "Exclusive Gateway 'ExclusiveGateway_1' has outgoing sequence flow 'SequenceFlow_0' without condition which is not the default flow.",
					"line": 77,
					"column": 15,
					"mainBpmnElementId": "ExclusiveGateway_1",
					"bpmnElementIds": [
						"ExclusiveGateway_1",
						"SequenceFlow_0"
					]
				}
			],
			"warnings": [
				{
					"message": "It is not recommended to use a cancelling boundary timer event with a time cycle.",
					"line": 87,
					"column": 20,
					"mainBpmnElementId": "BoundaryEvent_1",
					"bpmnElementIds": [
						"BoundaryEvent_1"
					]
				}
			]
		}
	}

Options