Call external service in a loop based on array length?

[StephenOTT]

see:

Pattern Review: DMN Looping for Array Input

Looking for some community feedback: I have a scenario I came across where you have a list you want to iterate through and find all of the matches. The pattern that quickly hacked together was to use DMN to find all of the matches in a Collect List usage of the DMN. Mocked Example: You have a list of “Systems” and you want to get the list of the Managers of those Systems. [image] Notice that you could have the same “Managers” of different systems. In this scenario lets assume that only u…

You can use the same features but on a service task or a script task which is calling your external service.

You use the multi-instance and configure the collection of the multi-instance to be the array in your json object.

some javascript:

S(JSON.stringify(myJsonObject)).prop('cars').elements()

See the links in the DMN looping thread for more details.