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Get information about a specific workflow role

Get information about a workflow role based on its ID.

For security reasons, you need to perform a Login action before making any other public calls to the WorldServer API. The sessionId in the response is your session token. Use this token in all the other calls that you make.

Also, make sure that you have the appropriate user type permissions to perform this API call. To view or update your permissions, in WorldServer, go to Management > User Setup > User Types, and then select your user type.

API call

<protocol>://<ws-host>:<ws-port>/ws-api/v1/workflowRoles/<workflowRoleId>?token=<sessionId>

Details

  • GET method
  • Content-Type in the header: application/json
  • Mandatory parameters: the session token (as a query string parameter or as a key-value pair in the header) and the ID of the workflow role (as a URI parameter)

Available filters

You can add the filters as query string parameters or as key-value pairs in the header:
FilterDescription
fields=<fieldName1,fieldName2,…,fieldNameN>The names of the fields to be included in the JSON response, separated by commas. Do not use in conjunction with the excludedFields filter.
excludedFields=<fieldName1,fieldName2,…,fieldNameN>The names of the fields to be excluded from the JSON response, separated by commas. Do not use in conjunction with the fields filter.
Examples:
  • <protocol>://<ws-host>:<ws-port>/ws-api/v1/workflowRoles/<workflowRoleId>?token=<sessionId>&excludedFields=id
  • <protocol>://<ws-host>:<ws-port>/ws-api/v1/workflowRoles/<workflowRoleId>?token=<sessionId>&fields=id,name

Response

A screen shot that shows a typical response to this call.

Error messages

MessageStatus code
No session token provided or invalid token401 Unauthorized
Resource WORKFLOW_ROLE (ID) not found404 Not Found
For input string: \<invalidId>\ (If the ID you entered is not a valid number.)500 Internal Server Error