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Version: ADONIS 16/ADOIT 17/ADOGRC 13

Search for process models

This article shows how to use the ADOXX API to search a repository's content to find all models of a specific model type.

The Java snippet below uses the endpoint /rest/<VERSION>/repos/<REPO_ID>/search to look for Business Process Diagrams in the repository and return the first 20. For each model, the name and the description should be contained in the response.

note

The Java snippet below uses Token Based Authentication. The token is generated using the Util class introduced in First REST Request - Connection.

Replace the values in angle brackets with values that fit your setup, e.g. instead of <HOST> use the host at which you access your ADOXX instance.

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Source Code

public class GetSearchForProcessModels
{
public static void main (final String [] args) throws ClientProtocolException,
IOException,
InvalidKeyException,
NoSuchAlgorithmException,
NoSuchProviderException
{
final CloseableHttpClient aClient = HttpClients.createDefault ();

final String sKey = "<KEY>";
final String sSecret = "<SECRET>";
final String sRepoID = "<REPO_ID>";
String sPath = "http://<HOST>:<PORT>/ADONIS/rest/2.0/repos/" + sRepoID + "/search?";

final Map <String, String []> aTokenParameters = new HashMap <String, String []> ();

final List <Entry <String, String>> aSearchParameters = new ArrayList <Map.Entry <String, String>> ();
aSearchParameters.add (new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry <> ("query",
"{filters:[{\"className\":\"MT_CROSS_LAYER\"}]}"));
aSearchParameters.add (new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry <> ("range-start", "0"));
aSearchParameters.add (new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry <> ("range-end", "20"));
aSearchParameters.add (new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry <> ("attribute", "NAME"));
aSearchParameters.add (new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry <> ("attribute", "A_DESCRIPTION"));

// Iterate through the search parameters and construct the URL
for (final Entry <String, String> aParam : aSearchParameters)
{
final String sParamName = aParam.getKey ();
final String sParamValue = aParam.getValue ();
sPath += sParamName + "=" + URLEncoder.encode (sParamValue, "UTF-8") + "&";
// Add the parameter name and the parameter value to the map containing the parameters for the
// token generation
final String [] aValues = aTokenParameters.get (sParamName);
if (aValues == null)
{
aTokenParameters.put (sParamName, new String [] {sParamValue});
}
else
{
final String [] aNewValues = new String [aValues.length + 1];
for (int i = 0; i < aValues.length; ++i)
{
aNewValues[i] = aValues[i];
}
aNewValues[aNewValues.length - 1] = sParamValue;
aTokenParameters.put (sParamName, aNewValues);
}
}
final HttpGet aMethod = new HttpGet (sPath);

final long nDate = new Date ().getTime ();
final String sDate = String.valueOf (nDate);
final String sGUID = UUID.randomUUID ().toString ();

aMethod.addHeader ("x-axw-rest-identifier", sKey);
aMethod.addHeader ("x-axw-rest-timestamp", sDate);
aMethod.addHeader ("x-axw-rest-guid", sGUID);

aTokenParameters.put ("x-axw-rest-timestamp", new String [] {sDate});
aTokenParameters.put ("x-axw-rest-guid", new String [] {sGUID});
aTokenParameters.put ("x-axw-rest-identifier", new String [] {sKey});

// Construct the token
final String sSecurityToken = Util.createSecurityToken (sSecret, aTokenParameters);
aMethod.addHeader ("x-axw-rest-token", sSecurityToken);

// The headers controlling the return type and the language do not have to be considered for
// token generation
aMethod.addHeader ("Accept", "application/json");
aMethod.addHeader ("Accept-Language", "en");

final CloseableHttpResponse aResponse = aClient.execute (aMethod);

try
{
final String sResult = EntityUtils.toString (aResponse.getEntity (), "UTF-8");
final StatusLine aStatusLine = aResponse.getStatusLine ();
System.out.println ("Status Code: " + aStatusLine.getStatusCode ());
System.out.println ("Result: \n" + sResult);
}
catch (final Exception aEx)
{
aEx.printStackTrace ();
}
finally
{
aResponse.close ();
}
}
}

The result should look similar to the following:

Status Code: 200
Result:
{
"rest_links": [ ... ],
"hitsTotal": 246,
"locale": "en",
"rangeStart": 0,
"rangeEnd": 20,
"items": [ ... ]
}