500 Error when adding web link to Confluence page content via API

Angelo Loria

I'm attempting to update a Confluence page via API using curl as part of a Jenkins pipeline (groovy code.)

My curl data looks like this (ignore the indentation):

  --data \'{ 
\"version\": { \"number\": 12 }, 
\"title\": \"PageTitle\", 
\"type\": \"page\", 
\"body\": { 
    \"storage\": { 
    \"value\": \"URL: <a href=\"https://testUrl.net/wiki/\">https://testUrl.net/wiki/</a></p>\",
    \"representation\": \"storage\" 
        } 
    } 
}\'

 The error I'm getting is this:

{"statusCode":500,"message":"org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('h' (code 104)): was expecting comma to separate OBJECT entries\n at [Source: com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.limitrequest.jersey.LimitingRequestFilter$1@700a4af8; line: 9, column: 184]"}

I've tried every combination of double and single quotes around that string that I can think of.  

Ian Ragudo

In your JSON payload, since you're using single quotes, you can remove the backslash to escape double quotes (aside from the one inside storage value) like

--data '{ 
"version": { "number": 12 }, 
"title": "PageTitle", 
"type": "page", 
"body": { 
    "storage": { 
    "value": "URL: <p><a href=\"https://testUrl.net/wiki/\">https://testUrl.net/wiki/</a></p&gt;",
    "representation": "storage" 
        } 
    } 
}'

I also added <p> in the body since you have a trailing </p>.

Hope this helps.

Ian