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In this case, the Catalog plays a manager role of the workflows, it manage the designed workflows and provide the Create/Updata/Query operations of workflows for Service Designer and provide the storage of workflows.
At the same time, the '(ZTE) WF Designer' plays an editor role of a workflow selected.
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Rest APIs of (ZTE) WF Designer (Workflow Editor) :
Define the Rest API definitions of (ZTE) WF Designer, these APIs will be provided by ZTE.
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Navigate to the (ZTE) WF Designer UI, load the workflow data with the given id from Catalog (Workflow Manager).
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First, The generator call query API (see: Get workflow JSON by WF ID) to retrieve the json content of the workflow from Catalog.
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After then, the generator call save API (see: Store BPMN Artifact against WF ID) to save the BPMN content back to the Catalog.
The Sequence for Generate BPMN Artifacts with WF ID(s) as follow:
URL:
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POST http://{wf-designer-ip}:{port}/api/workflow-modeler/v1/generateBPMN |
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Rest APIs of Catalog (Workflow Manager):
Rest Define the rest API definitions of of Catalog (Workflow Manager), these APIs will be provided by Amdocs/AT&T.
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Return the information of the workflow in json format. see WorkflowInfo: for see data information WorkflowInfo for details.
Get Extend BPMN Activities (from Catalog):
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| Name | Data Type | Required | Description | Comment |
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| id | String | Yes | Unique UUID of the workflow saved |
Data Information
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WorkflowInfo:
| Name | Data Type | Required | Description | Comment |
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id | String | Yes | Unique UUID of the workflow | |
| name | String | Yes | Name of the workflow | |
| version | String | No | version of the workflow | |
| description | String | No | description of the workflow | |
| scene | Enum | Yes | the scene of the workflow designer. Valid value as follow: resource - open a VNF's workflow service - open a Service's workflow | different scene may has different activities extend. |
| data | String | Yes | Contnent of the workflow in json format |
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