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Get Process Instance

Retrieves a historic process instance by id, according to the HistoricProcessInstance interface in the engine.

Method

GET /history/process-instance/{id}

Parameters

Path Parameters

Name Description
id The id of the historic process instance to be retrieved.

Result

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

Name Type Description
id String The id of the process instance.
rootProcessInstanceId String The process instance id of the root process instance that initiated the process.
superProcessInstanceId String The id of the parent process instance, if it exists.
superCaseInstanceId String The id of the parent case instance, if it exists.
caseInstanceId String The id of the parent case instance, if it exists.
processDefinitionName String The name of the process definition that this process instance belongs to.
processDefinitionKey String The key of the process definition that this process instance belongs to.
processDefinitionVersion Integer The version of the process definition that this process instance belongs to.
processDefinitionId String The id of the process definition that this process instance belongs to.
businessKey String The business key of the process instance.
startTime String The time the instance was started. Default format* yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSZ.
endTime String The time the instance ended. Default format* yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSZ.
removalTime String The time after which the instance should be removed by the History Cleanup job. Default format* yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSZ.
durationInMillis Number The time the instance took to finish (in milliseconds).
startUserId String The id of the user who started the process instance.
startActivityId String The id of the initial activity that was executed (e.g., a start event).
deleteReason String The provided delete reason in case the process instance was canceled during execution.
tenantId String The tenant id of the process instance.
state String last state of the process instance, possible values are:
  • ACTIVE - running process instance
  • SUSPENDED - suspended process instances
  • COMPLETED - completed through normal end event
  • EXTERNALLY_TERMINATED - terminated externally, for instance through REST API
  • INTERNALLY_TERMINATED - terminated internally, for instance by terminating boundary event

* For further information, please see the documentation.

Response Codes

Code Media type Description
200 application/json Request successful.
404 application/json Historic process instance with given id does not exist. See the Introduction for the error response format.

Example

Request

GET /history/process-instance/aProcInstId

Response

{
  "id":"7c80cc8f-ef95-11e6-b6e6-34f39ab71d4e",
  "businessKey":null,
  "processDefinitionId":"invoice:1:7bf79f13-ef95-11e6-b6e6-34f39ab71d4e",
  "processDefinitionKey":"invoice",
  "processDefinitionName":"Invoice Receipt",
  "processDefinitionVersion":1,
  "startTime":"2017-02-10T14:33:19.000+0200",
  "endTime":null,
  "removalTime": null,
  "durationInMillis":null,
  "startUserId":null,
  "startActivityId":"StartEvent_1",
  "deleteReason":null,
  "rootProcessInstanceId": "f8259e5d-ab9d-11e8-8449-e4a7a094a9d6",
  "superProcessInstanceId":null,
  "superCaseInstanceId":null,
  "caseInstanceId":null,
  "tenantId":null,
  "state":"ACTIVE"
}

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