IBM Business Process Manager, Version 8.5.5

REST interface for BPD-related resources - Task Instance Resource - PUT (cancel) Method

Sample method invocation

Alternative Method Invocation

Parameters

Required parameters

Name	Value Type	Description
action	string	Action to be performed for the specified task instance. Value Description cancel Cancel the specified task.

Request content

None

Response content

None

Error Response content

The default content type is application/json.

MIME type: application/json

{  "description": "WLE Error Response", 
   "type": "object",
   "properties":
   {  "status": {"type": "string",
         "description": "The status of the previous API call."
      },
      "exceptionType": {"type": "string",
         "description": "The classname associated with the exception."
      },
      "errorNumber": {"type": "string",
         "description": "Message ID of the exception."
      },
      "errorMessage": {"type": "string",
         "description": "Message text of the exception."
      },
      "errorMessageParameters": {"type": ["string"], "optional": true,
         "description":"Message text parameters of the exception."
      },
      "programmersDetails": {"type": "object", "optional": true,
         "description":"Additional exception details, for example, a stack trace."
      }
   }
} 

MIME type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<schema targetNamespace="http://rest.bpm.ibm.com/v1/data/exception"
	elementFormDefault="unqualified" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
	xmlns:tns="http://rest.bpm.ibm.com/v1/data/exception"
	xmlns:dat="http://rest.bpm.ibm.com/v1/data/root">

    <import schemaLocation="BPMRestData.xsd" namespace="http://rest.bpm.ibm.com/v1/data/root" />
    
    <!--
	This type represents an error response.
    -->    
    <element name="RestRuntimeException">
	<complexType>
	    <sequence>
		<element name="status" type="string"/>
		<element name="Data" type="tns:ExceptionData">
    		</element>
	    </sequence>
	</complexType>
    </element>

    <!-- 
	 This type contains detailed error information associated with an exception.
    -->
    <complexType name="ExceptionData">
	<sequence>
	    <element name="status" type="string"/>

	    <!-- This specifies the java class name of the exception -->
	    <element name="exceptionType" type="string"/>

	    <!-- The message ID of the error message -->
	    <element name="errorNumber" type="string" minOccurs="0"/>

	    <!-- The complete error message -->
	    <element name="errorMessage" type="string"/>

	    <!-- The list of strings inserted into the error message -->
	    <element name="errorMessageParameters" type="string" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

	    <!-- 
		 The stacktrace associated with the exception.
		 Note that this will be omitted unless the "server-stacktrace-enabled" property
		 is enabled in the server's 100Custom.xml file.
	    -->     
	    <element name="programmersDetails" type="string"></element>
	    
	    <!-- Prior responses.  Set if a bulk command was used -->
	    <element name="responses" type="dat:BulkCommandResponses" minOccurs="0"></element>
	</sequence>
    </complexType>
</schema>

MIME type: application/x-javascript

Status codes

The method returns one of the following status codes:

Code	Description
200 OK	Success completion.
400 Bad Request	The parameters are not valid or they are missing.
401 Unauthorized	The caller is not authorized for this request.
404 Not Found	The task does not exist.
500 Internal Server Error	A severe problem has occurred, programmer's details are provided.

Available since

7.5.0

Parent Topic: Task Instance Resource