How to add excel attachment to multiple pages using REST Api

[OToole]

Hi All,

I have a page with an excel attachment,  I want to be able to create new confluence pages from Jira that have a link to that attachment so that all pages are editing the same document.

I get the  link to the attachment using the get 

{_links={base=http://******:8090, context=, self=http://*******:8090/rest/api/content/5242957/child/attachment?filename=FM00872.xlsx}, limit=50, results=[], size=0, start=0}

// get attachment
def attach = "rest/api/content/"+ page_id + "/child/attachment?filename=FM00872.xlsx"
log.debug attach

authenticatedRequestFactory
 .createRequest(Request.MethodType.GET, attach)
 .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
 .execute(
new ResponseHandler<Response>() 
{
 @Override
 void handle(Response response) throws ResponseException {
 confResponse = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response.getResponseBodyAsString())
 log.debug confResponse
 }
}) 

 but now how do I add it to the new page?   I have this code that will load a file as an attachment.  But I don't have a file now, just a url link.  So what do I use in place of  .setFiles()

It doesn't matter to me if it shows up in the second page as a link or an excel attachment as long as the user can open and edit it.

If it is a link in the page rather than an attachment I would like to be able to just click on the link and have it open in excel,  is that possible?  if so I believe I would need the link to look something more like  

<a href="/plugins/servlet/confluence/editinword/5242957/attachments/FM00872.xlsx" rel="nofollow" class="office-editable-pathauth" title="">
<span>
Edit in Office
</span> </a>

// Add attachment as child
authenticatedRequestFactory
 .createRequest(Request.MethodType.POST, "rest/api/content/" + page_id + "/child/attachment")
 .addHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "nocheck")
 .setFiles(partList)
 .execute(new ResponseHandler<Response>() {
 @Override
 void handle(Response response) throws ResponseException {
 if(response.statusCode != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
 log.debug response.statusCode
 log.debug response.getResponseBodyAsString()
 throw new Exception(response.getResponseBodyAsString())
 }
 }
})

Thanks

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Hi! 

Have you tried for the full generated page as Confluence storage format. I mean upload attachments, than create 2 pages.  Where one is just link to another attachments.

After compare pages, You can regenerate page programmatically with correct link

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov