Confluence rest api, create attachment with python. Internal server error (500)

[Oskar Granlund]

Hi, I'm developing a script to export documents from Doors to Confluence. Currently I want to append the generated pdf as an attachment on a confluence page.

I developed the plugin on a linux machine using python 3 and the requests library. On my linux machine everything worked fine I could create new attachments just as I wanted.

However, doors is a windows application and I cloned the code to my windows machine installed the requests library on my python 3. At first it looked good, I could update existing attachments create new pages but when I tried to create a new attachment I received the error "500 Internal server error, message: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: File name must not be null"

Now I'm clueless how to proceed..
I went into the source code of the requests library to print out what's actually is sent to the rest api

Linux side(Working request):

rest url: http://baseurl/rest/api/content/23003339/child/attachment/

Data: None
Json: None

**Kwargs: {'headers': {'X-Atlassian-Token': 'nocheck'}, 'files': {'file': ('/home/user/workspace/export/ref_data/xxx.pdf',
<_io.BufferedReader name='/home/user/workspace/export/ref_data/xxx.pdf'>,
'application/pdf')}, 'verify': False, 'auth': ('admin', 'password')}

Windows side(Not working)

rest url: http://baseurl/rest/api/content/23003349/child/attachment/

Data: None
Json: None

**Kwargs:  'verify': False, 'auth': ('admin', 'password')} , 'files': {'file': ('C:\\home\\user\\workspace\\export\\ref_data\\xxx.pdf',
<_io.BufferedReader name='C:\\home\\user\\workspace\\export\\ref_data\\xxx.pdf'>,
'application\\pdf')}, {'headers': {'X-Atlassian-Token': 'nocheck'}}

This is what is sent to the rest API, the order of the kwargs dictionary seems to differ a little bit but that should not be a problem? The other thing is that the paths looks different.

I run the exact same code on linux and windows and yet it's not working I'm grateful for any tips helping me forward.

//Oskar

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Oskar Granlund,

have you tried to create a page (with no attachments) from Win/Python? Just to exclude that this is a Win-Lib problem.

So long

Thomas