Red Hat Process Automation Manager, or RHPAM, is a platform that are being use for automating business decisions and processes. It enables enterprise business and IT users to document, simulate, manage, automate and monitor business processes and decisions.

And for today’s example im trying to simulate a logic to validate a very simple condition, to check whether a user registration data is valid or not. The parameter is, a user should have a valid name, and age between 21 and 49.

First we need to create a simple Data Object to accomodate our parameter data and result,

Next is creating a simple decision table,

Put data constraint there,

Create expected result,

After adding some decision logic, the end result should be like this,

Next is creating a workflow (Business Processes), in here we are doing some data unmarshalling, logging, validating the data with our existing data table, and providing the result. The result of this workflow is going to be stored in a “status” variable.

The whole project structure will looks like this,

Next, we can do build, and deploy after that. This will make our project deployed to Kie Server.

Now here comes the exciting part, how to access and test our deployed pam project thru REST API. First we need to understand that our project is being deployed to a Kie Server, therefore we need to see what api services that are provided there. We can check easily by seeing our Kie Server’s swagger link,

https://kieserver-url/docs/

We can list all projects available on our Kie Server with this curl command, dont forget replacing pamuser and pampassword with your actual RHPAM username and password

curl -kv https://pamuser:pampassword@kieserver-url/services/rest/server/containers/

Use this curl command to see the api endpoint for our business process workflow,

curl -kv https://pamuser:pampassword@kieserver-url/services/rest/server/containers/Project01_1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/processes

Once we found our business process id, we can start our workflow by using this curl command,

curl -kv https://pamuser:pampassword@kieserver-url/services/rest/server/containers/Project01_1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/processes/Project01.Business01/instances \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "application": {
        "com.edw.project01.User": {
            "age": 2,
            "name":"edwin",
            "failed":null,
            "success":null
        }
    }
}'

This curl command will return a specific numerical id,

We can see the progress result of corresponding id on “Process Instances” menu,

Or by using a curl api call,

curl -kv https://pamuser:pampassword@kieserver-url/services/rest/server/containers/Project01_1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/processes/instances/12

Next is seeing what is the workflow result, by seeing that we are giving “age” parameter below 20 means we are expeting the registration result to be “false”. We can achieve that by using this curl command,

curl -kv https://pamuser:pampassword@kieserver-url/services/rest/server/containers/Project01_1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/processes/instances/12/variables/instances/status

And it is showing that value is “false”,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<variable-instance-list>
    <variable-instance>
        <name>status</name>
        <old-value></old-value>
        <value>false</value>
        <process-instance-id>12</process-instance-id>
        <modification-date>2020-05-29T16:37:14.382Z</modification-date>
    </variable-instance>
</variable-instance-list>

Lets try with a correct data,

curl -kv https://pamuser:pampassword@kieserver-url/services/rest/server/containers/Project01_1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/processes/Project01.Business01/instances \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "application": {
        "com.edw.project01.User": {
            "age": 25,
            "name":"edwin",
            "failed":null,
            "success":null
        }
    }
}'

This time it will shows “true”

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<variable-instance-list>
    <variable-instance>
        <name>status</name>
        <old-value></old-value>
        <value>true</value>
        <process-instance-id>13</process-instance-id>
        <modification-date>2020-05-29T16:58:26.244Z</modification-date>
    </variable-instance>
</variable-instance-list>

You can check my sample code on github,

https://github.com/edwin/rhpam-hello-world-example

So, it’s pretty much simple right.
Have fun with RHPAM