Confluence REST API GET request also looks into the recycle bin, how do I prevent that?

Question

Hello,

When I use a GET request to find a page by looking for its title, the call will also look for the page in the recycle bin. How do I prevent this? To visualize this issue a little bit better:

Lets say we have a page called foobar. I have a Jira automation rule that checks if the page foobar exists. If it does not exists, it will create the page. We run the automation rule and the page exsits, thus nothing is created. Now lets say that someone accidentally, manually, deleted the page foobar. Once the rule is executed it will look for foobar. It finds foobar, in the recycle bin. It thinks the page foobar exists and it is not created. Yes it exists, but its not live for the world to see.

My question is, is it possible for the GET request to NOT look into the recycle bin and only look for live pages?

Example code:

https://mybusiness.confluence.com/rest/api/content/search?cql=title=foobar

Ano Niempje · Answer

Hi Cyrille, not sure how I do this but I guess this is something I will have to discuss with the Administrator. I did some aditional testing and tried to look for my live page but it keeps giving me a page with an ID that does no longer exists anymore (not even in the trash) so I am suspecting that it still is looking for my previously deleted page somewhere in the database? Funny thing is that when I run the GET request form a Jira automation rool webhook action I get the wrong page, but when I run the GET request from Postman I get the live and correct page, every time.

Thanks for your input Cyrille I think the best thing I can do now is contact my Atlassian administrator.

Cyrille Martin · Answer

You may have an issue on your content indexation.
I know it is not the best to rebuild an index on production environment during the day but depending on the size of the space where your trash page is present, you can only re-index this space ?

Ano Niempje · Answer

And one last thing, the api result says status:current even though the page is in the trash.

Like this:

{    "results": [        {            "id": "2769289397",            "type": "page",            "status": "current",            "title": "foobar",            "position": 0,            "restrictions": {},

This page is literally in the trash but the status comes back as current???