Is there a way to get the actual file of an attachment in Confluence via a Java API?

Question

Is it possible to get the actual file stored on the file system for an attachment programatically in a Java plugin?  i.e. versioned attachments seem to exist on the file system in a location such as

<install dir>/confluence/home/attachments/ver003/37/65/65537/24/200/950274/1081345/1

I haven't seen a way to get this path in the Attachment object--the urlPath, downloadPath and exportPath don't give me anything useful for this.

Robert Hall2 · Answer

Thanks for the ideas.  Found a way to do what I needed to using the content of the attachment instead (available as an InputStream from the Attachment object).

Mirko Skramusky [Communardo] · Answer

Hi Robert,

there are different storages for files, on the filesystem or in the database. So getting the concrete path depends on the storage strategy and is not always the same.

For filebased storages the directory structure is described here. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Mirko

PeterKoczan · Answer

Hi,

I believe there should be a way, as the Confluence CLI plugin has such a function: https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-getAttachment

Would that work for you?

Kind regards,

Peter