Rest call / Send an uploaded file to a REST web service

Question

Hello,

I work on a process:

In this process, a file is uploaded in a form. And then, a would like to use a rest call task to send this uploaded file or his url to a REST web service.

is there a way to do this : i don't know how to get the url of the uploaded file and use it in the rest call task.

Can you help me.

Raphael

gdharley · Accepted Answer

Raphael,

Documents that are uploaded are saved into the Activiti database.
You can retrieve the link to the content via REST API (details here), or you can use a Java Delegate to push to your external repository using the contentService bean (not documented).

Hope this helps,

Greg

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