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Get Historic Detail

Retrieves a historic detail by id.

Method

GET /history/detail/{id}

Parameters

Path Parameters

Name Description
id The id of the detail.

Query Parameters

Name Description
deserializeValue Determines whether serializable variable values (typically variables that store custom Java objects) should be deserialized on server side (default true).

If set to true, a serializable variable will be deserialized on server side and transformed to JSON using Jackson's POJO/bean property introspection feature. Note that this requires the Java classes of the variable value to be on the REST API's classpath.

If set to false, a serializable variable will be returned in its serialized format. For example, a variable that is serialized as XML will be returned as a JSON string containing XML.

Note: While true is the default value for reasons of backward compatibility, we recommend setting this parameter to false when developing web applications that are independent of the Java process applications deployed to the engine.

Result

An object having the following properties:

Name Type Description
id String The id of the historic detail.
type String The type of the historic detail. Either formField for a submitted form field value or variableUpdate for variable updates.
processDefinitionKey String The key of the process definition that this historic detail belongs to.
processDefinitionId String The id of the process definition that this historic detail belongs to.
processInstanceId String The id of the process instance the historic detail belongs to.
activityInstanceId String The id of the activity instance the historic detail belongs to.
executionId String The id of the execution the historic detail belongs to.
caseDefinitionKey String The key of the case definition that this historic detail belongs to.
caseDefinitionId String The id of the case definition that this historic detail belongs to.
caseInstanceId String The id of the case instance the historic detail belongs to.
caseExecutionId String The id of the case execution the historic detail belongs to.
taskId String The id of the task the historic detail belongs to.
tenantId String The id of the tenant that this historic detail belongs to.
userOperationId String The id of user operation which links historic detail with user operation log entries.
time String The time when this historic detail occurred, default format* yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ.
removalTime String The time after which the historic detail should be removed by the History Cleanup job. Default format* yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ.
rootProcessInstanceId String The process instance id of the root process instance that initiated the process containing this historic detail.

* For further information, please see the documentation.

Depending on the type of the historic detail it contains further properties. In case of a HistoricVariableUpdate the following properties are also provided:

Name Type Description
variableName String The name of the variable which has been updated.
variableInstanceId String The id of the associated variable instance.
variableType String The value type of the variable.
value String/Number/Boolean/Object The variable's value. Value differs depending on the variable's type and on the deserializeValue parameter.
valueInfo Object A JSON object containing additional, value-type-dependent properties.

For variables of type Object, the following properties are returned:

  • objectTypeName: A string representation of the object's type name.
  • serializationDataFormat: The serialization format used to store the variable.
revision number The revision of the historic variable update.
errorMessage String An error message in case a Java Serialized Object could not be de-serialized.
initial boolean Returns true for variable updates that contains the initial values of the variables

In case of an HistoricFormField the following properties are also provided:

Name Type Description
fieldId String The id of the form field.
fieldValue String/Number/Boolean/Object The submitted value.

Response Codes

Code Media type Description
200 application/json Request successful.
404 application/json Variable with given id does not exist. See the Introduction for the error response format.

Example

Request

GET /history/detail/3cd79390-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e

Response

Status 200.

{
  "type": "variableUpdate",
  "id": "3cd79390-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "processDefinitionKey": "invoice",
  "processDefinitionId": "invoice:1:3c59899b-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "processInstanceId": "3cd597b7-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "activityInstanceId": "StartEvent_1:3cd7456e-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "executionId": "3cd597b7-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "caseDefinitionKey": null,
  "caseDefinitionId": null,
  "caseInstanceId": null,
  "caseExecutionId": null,
  "taskId": null,
  "tenantId": null,
  "userOperationId": "3cd76c7f-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "time": "2017-03-03T15:03:54.000+0200",
  "variableName": "amount",
  "variableInstanceId": "3cd65b08-001a-11e7-8c6b-34f39ab71d4e",
  "variableType": "Double",
  "value": 30.0,
  "valueInfo": {},
  "revision": 0,
  "errorMessage": null,
  "removalTime":"2018-02-10T14:33:19.000+0200",
  "rootProcessInstanceId": "aRootProcessInstanceId",
  "initial": true
}

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