Add defaultSerializationFormat to References and Installation Guides

[ThorbenLindhauer]

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This is not yet mentioned in bpm-platform.xml

                    <property name="defaultSerializationFormat"> 
                                    application/json 
                    </property>

So it is rather hard to find how to set the default.

It is even mentioned that the default should be changed (https://docs.camunda.org/manual/latest/user-guide/data-formats/data-formats-in-processes/#serializing-process-variables) - but no hint how to achieve this. A link should be provided

Links:

• is duplicated by https://jira.camunda.com/browse/CAM-5469

[ThorbenLindhauer]

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Asked today afgain.

This is what needs to be added in WildFly - add it to standalone.xml:

    <subsystem xmlns="urn:org.camunda.bpm.jboss:1.1">
        <process-engines>
            <process-engine name="default" default="true">

...

... application/json

[ThorbenLindhauer]

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It is actually in the docs (see bottom page of https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.4/user-guide/data-formats/json/#serializing-process-variables), but probably not in a place where you would search for it.

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There is no information WHERE to set this property. So people are lost.

we need to show how to set it in bpm-platform.xml and in the various containers (e.g. standalone.xml in WildFly).

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For anyone else looking to set the defaultSerializationFormat to application/json on tomcat before the documentation gets updated, adding

<property name="defaultSerializationFormat">application/json</property>

to the bpm-platform.xml where you see it below worked for me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bpm-platform xmlns="http://www.camunda.org/schema/1.0/BpmPlatform" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.camunda.org/schema/1.0/BpmPlatform http://www.camunda.org/schema/1.0/BpmPlatform ">

  <job-executor>
    <job-acquisition name="default" />
  </job-executor>

  <process-engine name="default">
    <job-acquisition>default</job-acquisition>
    <configuration>org.camunda.bpm.engine.impl.cfg.StandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration</configuration>
    <datasource>java:jdbc/ProcessEngine</datasource>

    <properties>
      <property name="history">full</property>
      <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate">true</property>
      <property name="authorizationEnabled">true</property>
      <property name="jobExecutorDeploymentAware">true</property>
      <property name="defaultSerializationFormat">application/json</property>
    </properties>

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Hi I know this ticket is quite old, but luckily i found it during my research.

 

Could you please update the documentation. I think as Thorben mentioned https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.14/user-guide/data-formats/json/#serializing-process-variables would be a good place to add it.

 

BR

Christoph