Using content ids for pages created by the REST API

Question

I'm using the REST API to create Wiki pages like this: {"title": "ldmin", "type": "page", "space": {"key": "dh"}, "ancestors": [{"id": 602832998}], "body": {"storage": {"representation": "storage", "value": "

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...... Later on I like to retrieve this page by the API to edit some parts, therefore I like to identify the part using the ri:content-id. But the ID wasn't stored. On requesting the page I only get the element but without the content-id attribute. What I'm doing wrong? Thx and best regards, Jörg

Nico Beckers · Answer

I am having the exact same problem. Even though the documentation states that ri:content-id is a required attribute, it seems to get stripped by confluence upon page creation. Is there any other way to add some identifier to elements, such that I can find them later on (and that survive page edits)?

Jörg Wendel · Answer

no one an idea what goes wrong?

Jörg Wendel · Answer

Here a complete example, I create a page wit POST and this payload: { "body" : { "storage" : { "representation" : "storage", "value" : "

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Name: teflosPath
Type: string
Default:
Mandatory: yes

" } }, "ancestors" : [ { "id" : 602832998 } ], "type" : "page", "title" : "teflosin", "space" : { "key" : "dh" } } This works so far and the page appears in the wiki. Now I request the page with GET and the response is: { "_links" : { "base" : "https://wiki.id1.de", "context" : "", "self" : "https://wiki.id1.de/rest/api/content?spaceKey=dh&expand=body.view&type=page&title=teflosin" }, "limit" : 25, "size" : 1, "start" : 0, "results" : [ { "_expandable" : { "history" : "/rest/api/content/602833496/history", "descendants" : "/rest/api/content/602833496/descendant", "version" : "", "ancestors" : "", "children" : "/rest/api/content/602833496/child", "container" : "/rest/api/space/dh", "space" : "/rest/api/space/dh", "operations" : "", "metadata" : "", "restrictions" : "/rest/api/content/602833496/restriction/byOperation" }, "_links" : { "self" : "https://wiki.id1.de/rest/api/content/602833496", "tinyui" : "/x/WILuIw", "webui" : "/display/dh/teflosin", "edit" : "/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=602833496" }, "status" : "current", "body" : { "_expandable" : { "editor" : "", "anonymous_export_view" : "", "storage" : "", "styled_view" : "", "export_view" : "" }, "view" : { "representation" : "storage", "_expandable" : { "content" : "/rest/api/content/602833496", "webresource" : "" }, "value" : "

TeflosPath

Name: teflosPath
Type: string
Default:
Mandatory: yes

" } }, "extensions" : { "position" : "none" }, "id" : "602833496", "type" : "page", "title" : "teflosin" } ] } This is also working with the exception that ri:content-id is missing. Any idea what is going wrong? Thanks Jörg