Trigger Execution

Signals an execution by id. Can for example be used to explicitly skip user tasks or signal asynchronous continuations.

Method

POST /execution/{id}/signal

Name	Description
id	The id of the execution to signal.

A JSON object with the following properties:

Name Description

variables

A JSON object containing variable key-value pairs. Each key is a variable name and each value a JSON variable value object.

Name	Description
value	The variable's value. For variables of type `Object`, the serialized value has to be submitted as a String value. For variables of type `File` the value has to be submitted as Base64 encoded string.
type	The value type of the variable.
valueInfo	A JSON object containing additional, value-type-dependent properties. For serialized variables of type `Object`, the following properties can be provided: `objectTypeName`: A string representation of the object's type name. `serializationDataFormat`: The serialization format used to store the variable. For serialized variables of type `File`, the following properties can be provided: `filename`: The name of the file. This is not the variable name but the name that will be used when downloading the file again. `mimetype`: The MIME type of the file that is being uploaded. `encoding`: The encoding of the file that is being uploaded.

This method returns no content.

Code	Media type	Description
204		Request successful.
400	application/json	The variable value or type is invalid, for example if the value could not be parsed to an Integer value or the passed variable type is not supported. See the Introduction for the error response format.

POST /execution/{id}/signal

Request Body:

{"variables":
    {"myVariable": {"value": "camunda", "type": "String"},
    "mySecondVariable": {"value": 124, "type": "Integer"}}
}

Status 204. No content.