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title: REST weight: 4706

tibco-rest

This trigger provides your flogo application the ability to start a flow via REST over HTTP

Installation

flogo install github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-contrib/trigger/rest

Schema

Settings, Outputs and Endpoint:

{
  "settings": [
    {
      "name": "port",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "pathParams",
      "type": "params"
    },
    {
      "name": "queryParams",
      "type": "params"
    },
    {
      "name": "header",
      "type": "params"
    },
    {
      "name": "content",
      "type": "object"
    }
  ],
  "endpoint": {
    "settings": [
      {
        "name": "method",
        "type": "string",
        "required" : true
      },
      {
        "name": "path",
        "type": "string",
        "required" : true
      }
    ]
  }
}

Settings

Trigger:

Setting	Description
port	The port to listen on

Endpoint:

Setting	Description
method	The HTTP method
path	The resource path

Example Configurations

Triggers are configured via the triggers.json of your application. The following are some example configuration of the REST Trigger.

POST

Configure the Trigger to handle a POST on /device

{
  "triggers": [
    {
      "name": "flogo-rest",
      "settings": {
        "port": "8080"
      },
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "actionType": "flow",
          "actionURI": "embedded://new_device_flow",
          "settings": {
            "method": "POST",
            "path": "/device"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

GET

Configure the Trigger to handle a GET on /device/:id

{
  "triggers": [
    {
      "name": "flogo-rest",
      "settings": {
        "port": "8080"
      },
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "actionType": "flow",
          "actionURI": "embedded://get_device_flow",
          "settings": {
            "method": "GET",
            "path": "/device/:id"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}