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Hi Jaro,

in the current release the default parameter values are indeed visible through the REST API only through the HTML and XML representations. We will add them to the JSON and plain text formats in the next release, thanks for pointing out the bug.

More in detail, if you deploy the mashup_doodlemap example.

http://localhost:8080/rest/mashup_doodlemap/DoodleMap/1.1/?_Accept=appli...

should return you an XML document such as the following:

<template id="{mashup_doodlemap}DoodleMap[1.1]" start_url="/rest/mashup_doodlemap/DoodleMap/1.1/" instance_url="/rest/mashup_doodlemap/DoodleMap/1.1/*/">
<input>
<param name="results">10</param>
<param name="zip">10001</param>
<param name="query">Pizza</param>
<param name="name">CP</param>
<param name="time">2000</param>
<param name="participants">3</param>
<param name="title">Pizza in NY</param>
<param name="description">Where to go for Pizza in NY?</param>
</input>
</template>

which contains the default values as text between the <param> tags.

The same happens with the HTML form where the default values are entered in the form fields for you. The browser is going to send them when POSTing the form to start the process and your client should do the same.

Can you be more specific about the "process start authorization" issue? In the current design, the REST API does not deal with any of such issues, it is up to your client (e.g., we use it with a web frontend) to check that calls made to the API are done only by authorized clients. Of course, we can always extend the API to deal with such requirement.

Best Regards,
JOpera Team