I have developed a simple process that uses external task services to execute certain parts of the process. I have a mobile application which services as the frontend using the REST api for communication with Camunda. The issue is now I need some type of feedback to know when the process has ended and it what state it ended. ie. successful ended or ended with an error in the flow. I have been using the /process-instances/{id} endpoint to check if the instance is still there but this is not ideal. What is the best approach to go about doing this? is there an endpoint that I can may be poll to get this type of feedback?
Hi @dondragon2 ,
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Any insight as to how I can accomplish the above?
Hi @dondragon2,
you can check the history of the process instance you started with this REST API: Get Process Instance | docs.camunda.org
Check the content of the state. If it changed to COMPLETED your process has finished.
A real synchronous response is not possible, as the start of the process instance and the complete of the external service task happens on different systems.
Hope this helps, Ingo
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Thanks Ingo. Also, would you recommend polling this endpoint every few seconds to get the result or is there another way of doing this?