Date in activiti REST api

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hemamalini

I have a form in my start event which has date fields. I am using Activiti REST component. In request body , how should i mention the date field . How activiti engine will identify it as date instead of string.
{
   "processDefinitionId":"dateTest:1:158",
   "businessKey":"myBusinessKey",
   "variables": [
      {
        "name":"start date",
        "value":"2015-11-26",
      }
   ]
}
How to specify the date format in request body?

balsarori

You can specify the variable type in JSON. For a date variable you would need to use the ISO-8601 format. The above request body would look something like this

<br>{<br>&nbsp; "processDefinitionId":"dateTest:1:158",<br>&nbsp; "businessKey":"myBusinessKey",<br>&nbsp; "variables": [{<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "name":"startDate",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "type": "date",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "value":"2015-11-26T00:00:00Z"<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; }]<br>}<br>