Script to delete attachment's version

Nguyen Tran

I'm trying to write a script job to scan and delete attachment versions on a page.

For example on a page I have attach file A and reattach a few times to get 5 versions for file A. I want to write a script to delete the first 4 version.

Here's my attempt:

import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Attachment
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.AttachmentManager
import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator


def attachmentManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(AttachmentManager)

hits.each { attachment ->
def attachmentOnPage = attachmentManager.getAttachments(attachment)
if (attachmentOnPage.size() >1)
{
    log.warn "attachmentOnPage: ${attachmentOnPage}"
    log.warn "size: ${attachmentOnPage.size()}"
    int size = attachmentOnPage.size()
    int sizeMax = size - 1
    List<String> attachmentDeleteList = new ArrayList<String>()
    for(int i=0;i<size;i++)
    {
        if (i<sizeMax)
        {
            def attachmentSingle = attachmentOnPage.get(i)
            attachmentDeleteList.add(attachmentSingle)
            log.warn "attachmentDeleteList: ${attachmentDeleteList}"
            //log.warn "attachmentSingle: ${attachmentSingle}"
            //attachmentManager.removeAttachmentFromServer(attachmentSingle)
        }
    }
}
}

However, when I try to run the removeAttachmentFromServer method, it delete every versions and the file itself in the database. I also tried the removeAttachment(attachmentDeleteList) and it does the same thing. Is there any method that just delete the version not the attachment itself.

Bill Bailey

Well maybe it is easier to do via a REST call? The URL for deleting an attachment version takes the form of:

https://www.your-conlfuence.com/pages/confirmattachmentversionremoval.action?pageId=######&fileName=<your file name>&version=n

Where n is the version number. Now I don't know if you delete version 1, if the rest of the attachments will renumber so you will have to experiment (meaning you may have to delete version 1 four times in your case).