curl --request POST \
  --url http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "message": "a task comment",
  "processInstanceId": "96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687"
}
'

import requests

url = "http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create"

payload = {
    "message": "a task comment",
    "processInstanceId": "96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Basic <encoded-value>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    message: 'a task comment',
    processInstanceId: '96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687'
  })
};

fetch('http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_PORT => "62437",
  CURLOPT_URL => "http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'message' => 'a task comment',
    'processInstanceId' => '96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"message\": \"a task comment\",\n  \"processInstanceId\": \"96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create")
  .header("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"message\": \"a task comment\",\n  \"processInstanceId\": \"96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://{host}:{port}/{contextPath}/task/{id}/comment/create")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Basic <encoded-value>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"message\": \"a task comment\",\n  \"processInstanceId\": \"96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "links": [
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "href": "http://localhost:38080/rest-test/task/aTaskId/comment/aTaskCommentId",
      "rel": "self"
    }
  ],
  "id": "aTaskCommentId",
  "userId": "userId",
  "taskId": "aTaskId",
  "processInstanceId": "96dc383f-23eb-11e6-8e4a-f6aefe19b687",
  "time": "2013-01-02T21:37:03.887+0200",
  "message": "comment message",
  "removalTime": "2018-02-10T14:33:19.000+0200",
  "rootProcessInstanceId": "aRootProcessInstanceId"
}

{
  "type": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "code": 123
}

{
  "userId": "<string>",
  "missingAuthorizations": [
    {
      "permissionName": "<string>",
      "resourceName": "<string>",
      "resourceId": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "type": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "code": 123
}