Converting Twiki HTML URLs to Confluence

Bruce Cran1

I'm having problems converting URLs from Twiki to Confluence format using UWC.
The Twiki pages have URLs such as:

<img width="200" alt="Img.jpg" src="/twiki/pub/Web/PageName/Img.jpg" height="200" />

That's getting converted to:

!/twiki/pub/Web/PageName^2-Img.jpg|width=200"200", alt="Img.jpg", height=200"200"!

Confluence then reports "Unable to render embedded object: File (Img.jpg) not found."
It seems that /twiki/pub/Web needs to be removed, but setting remove-twiki-path to /twiki/pub/~UWCTOKENCURRENTSPACE~ doesn't seem to work. I've also tried changing vars-attachurl but that didn't work either.
What would I need to put in converter.twiki.properties to correctly convert the URLs?

Laura Kolker2

Hi Bruce,

Since you posted both here _and_ at the old forum, I'm going to repost my answer from there to here, just for documentation's sake. Let me know if you need anything else.

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You've hit an edge case.
I've updated the source to handle this situation better. Hopefully, I understood your syntax case sufficiently to help you out.

Basically, the ImageConverter was only using the remove-twiki-path-N properties for non-html image syntaxes. I've updated it to now handle both html and non-html types of syntax.

Additionally, it can now handle image syntaxes with that style of URL, so it can identify what space, etc.

Here are the two properties I set in my test:

TWiki.0505.remove-twiki-path-1.property=/twiki/pub/  <br>TWiki.6400.space-Web.property=Confkey 

The latter one identifies what the Web->Confluence spacekey mapping should be. You would want whatever your target Confluence spacekey is going to be for that Web. You'll need to set up a space map property for every Web you are transforming.

Then, with the changes to the source, I rebuilt, and it successfully transformed this:

<img width=<span>"200"</span> alt=<span>"Img.jpg"</span> src=<span>"/twiki/pub/Web/PageName/Img.jpg"</span> height=<span>"200"</span>/> 

into this:

!Confkey:PageName^Img.jpg|width=<span>"200"</span>, alt=<span>"Img.jpg"</span>, height=<span>"200"</span>! 

Here are instructions for how to build the latest UWC source

Cheers,
Laura