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Version: 1.3.2

Flow rest API

Rest Endpoints​

jadice flow controller serves as transparent service that hands off the execution of jobs to workers. It provides the current job status to the client whilst abstracting away the scalability-related aspects of workers. Therefore, jadice flow controller is the only communication endpoint of a client to handle jobs.

To run a job, you basically need three different API calls:

  1. Post a job (and receive job ID in response): POST /job/create
  2. Query status of the job until FINISHED: GET /job/execution/{jobId}
  3. Get result as soon as the job is FINISHED: GET /job/result/{jobId}

In the following are possible jadice flow controller endpoints with their functionalities listed.

Job related functions to handle jobs: Rest job

Admin related functions to retrieve / modify configuration: Rest admin

Please note that the controller also provides a optional swagger UI (default URL is http://controller-server:8080/swagger-ui.html) which provides details to all endpoints. The following samples provide a basic overview of the most important operations.

If keycloak is enabled, don't forget to pass the access token (Bearer-Token in the Authorization Header field) with all requests! See Keycloak section.

Samples​

List of available job template names​

Example result for GET /job/template-names
[
    "ImageToPDF",
    "ImageToTIFF",
    "afp",
    "afp-convert",
    "document-content-extractor",
    "ocr",
]

The resulting string array contains all names for enabled job templates.

Create a job​

Create a job: POST /job/create with the JobRequest:

Sample request for POST /job/create
{
  "jobTemplateName": "imageToPdfWithHOCR",
  "priority": 0,
  "items": [
    {
      "parts": [
        {
          "url": "https://example.jadice.de/files/Test.jpg",
          "filename": "Test.jpg",
          "type": "BASE_PART",
          "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

This will send a request with the part "Test.jpg" to be processed by flow with the imageToPdfWithHOCR template.

Check the result:

Example result for POST /job/create
{
    "jobExecutionID": 18,
    "traceID": null,
    "status": "STARTING",
    "exitStatus": "UNKNOWN",
    "currentQueuePosition": -1,
    "jobName": null,
    "startTime": null,
    "createTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:56.656+00:00",
    "endTime": null,
    "lastUpdated": null,
    "failureExceptions": [],
    "priority": 0,
    "creatorHost": null,
    "creatorIP": null,
    "stepInformations": [],
    "jobAuditInformation": null,
    "allFailureExceptions": []
}

The currentQueuePosition might return a negative value if the job has been started instantly. Otherwise the value indicates the position of the job within the job queue.

Check job status​

Most noteworthy status values:

  • STARTING: Job is queued, but has not really started yet
  • STARTED: Job is running
  • COMPLETED: Job is finished
  • FAILED: Job failed
Example result for POST /job/execution/JOB-ID
{
    "jobExecutionID": 18,
    "traceID": "",
    "status": "COMPLETED",
    "exitStatus": "exitCode=COMPLETED;exitDescription=",
    "currentQueuePosition": -1,
    "jobName": "imageToPdfWithHOCR",
    "startTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:56.658+00:00",
    "createTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:56.651+00:00",
    "endTime": "2023-08-15T10:23:02.885+00:00",
    "lastUpdated": "2023-08-15T10:23:02.885+00:00",
    "failureExceptions": [],
    "priority": 0,
    "creatorHost": "10.42.4.0",
    "creatorIP": "10.42.4.0",
    "stepInformations": [
        {
            "stepExecutionID": 27,
            "jobExecutionID": 18,
            "stepName": "filetypeAnalyzer",
            "summary": "StepExecution: id=27, version=4, name=filetypeAnalyzer, status=COMPLETED, exitStatus=COMPLETED, readCount=1, filterCount=0, writeCount=1 readSkipCount=0, writeSkipCount=0, processSkipCount=0, commitCount=2, rollbackCount=0",
            "status": "COMPLETED",
            "exitStatus": "exitCode=COMPLETED;exitDescription=",
            "startTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:56.663+00:00",
            "endTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:57.209+00:00",
            "lastUpdated": "2023-08-15T10:22:57.209+00:00",
            "failureExceptions": []
        },
        {
            "stepExecutionID": 28,
            "jobExecutionID": 18,
            "stepName": "ocr",
            "summary": "StepExecution: id=28, version=4, name=ocr, status=COMPLETED, exitStatus=COMPLETED, readCount=1, filterCount=0, writeCount=1 readSkipCount=0, writeSkipCount=0, processSkipCount=0, commitCount=2, rollbackCount=0",
            "status": "COMPLETED",
            "exitStatus": "exitCode=COMPLETED;exitDescription=",
            "startTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:57.213+00:00",
            "endTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:59.947+00:00",
            "lastUpdated": "2023-08-15T10:22:59.947+00:00",
            "failureExceptions": []
        },
        {
            "stepExecutionID": 29,
            "jobExecutionID": 18,
            "stepName": "pdf",
            "summary": "StepExecution: id=29, version=4, name=pdf, status=COMPLETED, exitStatus=COMPLETED, readCount=1, filterCount=0, writeCount=1 readSkipCount=0, writeSkipCount=0, processSkipCount=0, commitCount=2, rollbackCount=0",
            "status": "COMPLETED",
            "exitStatus": "exitCode=COMPLETED;exitDescription=",
            "startTime": "2023-08-15T10:22:59.951+00:00",
            "endTime": "2023-08-15T10:23:02.883+00:00",
            "lastUpdated": "2023-08-15T10:23:02.883+00:00",
            "failureExceptions": []
        }
    ],
    "jobAuditInformation": null,
    "allFailureExceptions": []
}

The job has status COMPLETED and also its steps provide some general information and are finished, too. When waiting for a Job, the status can be polled until it reaches COMPLETED or FAILED.

Getting the result of a job​

Only the result parts​

This will only return parts which are not of type META. So processed/converted parts will not show up.

Example result for POST /job/result/JOB-ID
[
    {
        "id": 18,
        "processingProperties": {},
        "indexData": {},
        "parts": [
            {
                "id": 37,
                "url": "https://example.jadice.de/files/jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349_e340cc5d-bd9e-45d2-b412-b11e1bc7f792.pdf",
                "filename": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349_e340cc5d-bd9e-45d2-b412-b11e1bc7f792.pdf",
                "type": "BASE_PART",
                "mimeType": "application/pdf",
                "processingProperties": {
                    "stream-descriptor-uuid": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349",
                    "isPdf": "true",
                    "parent-stream-descriptor-uuid": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.891692024345243",
                    "PDFAFlavour": "2b",
                    "description": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349_e340cc5d-bd9e-45d2-b412-b11e1bc7f792.pdf",
                    "isEncryptedPdf": "false",
                    "pageCountIsCorrect": "true",
                    "isCompliant": "true",
                    "created-by": "pdf"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
]

This result contains a list of items (in this case 1 item) with one result part.

A list of all items / parts:​

To get a full list with all items / parts. This also contains the processed META parts (input/intermediate parts).

Example result for POST /job/items/JOB-ID
[
    {
        "id": 18,
        "processingProperties": {},
        "indexData": {},
        "parts": [
            {
                "id": 35,
                "url": "https://example.jadice.de/files/Test.jpg",
                "filename": "Test.jpg",
                "type": "META",
                "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
                "processingProperties": {}
            },
            {
                "id": 36,
                "url": "https://example.jadice.de/files/Test.hocr",
                "filename": "Test.hocr",
                "type": "META",
                "mimeType": "application/vnd.hocr+html",
                "processingProperties": {
                    "stream-descriptor-uuid": "jf-worker-tessocr-68f89848f5-854x8-10.42.10.128-1692024946696",
                    "description": "Test.hocr",
                    "src-part-id": "35",
                    "created-by": "ocr"
                }
            },
            {
                "id": 37,
                "url": "https://example.jadice.de/files/jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349_e340cc5d-bd9e-45d2-b412-b11e1bc7f792.pdf",
                "filename": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349_e340cc5d-bd9e-45d2-b412-b11e1bc7f792.pdf",
                "type": "BASE_PART",
                "mimeType": "application/pdf",
                "processingProperties": {
                    "stream-descriptor-uuid": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349",
                    "isPdf": "true",
                    "parent-stream-descriptor-uuid": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.891692024345243",
                    "PDFAFlavour": "2b",
                    "description": "jf-worker-topdf-56657fdbd6-ll6gr-10.42.9.89-1692024345349_e340cc5d-bd9e-45d2-b412-b11e1bc7f792.pdf",
                    "isEncryptedPdf": "false",
                    "pageCountIsCorrect": "true",
                    "isCompliant": "true",
                    "created-by": "pdf"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
]
Last updated on by Simon Welsch