Confluence 4.0. No Wiki-markup in macros. How to workaround

Question

I was unpleasantly surprised, that all my macros have stopped working after moving to Confluece 4.0. There is no options "Output format - Wiki markup" anymore.

What should I do? How to work it around? How to call a system macro in my XHTML (now) macro?

Thanks.

E_2drgcj · Answer

This should work: ## @noparams

$body

--- And then set the macro as "Escaped".

Joe Clark · Answer

Just trying to understand your question properly, Alex - so you have a macro which, when rendered, includes in its content, an {info} macro?

Does your macro have a body? Is the contents of the {info} macro hard-coded, or configurable by the user?

If you want to convert wiki markup into XHTML, you can get a com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Renderer bean injected into your macro class, and then use that to convert a {macro} string in wiki markup into the corresponding rendered XHTML.

Joe Clark · Answer

@Sue - Confluence 4.0 is fairly unique in the scope of changes to Confluence in that we completely altered the storage format of Confluence from wiki markup to XHTML.  In honesty, Confluence 4 is probably the biggest change to Confluence ever, and it's probably unlikely that things will change this much again.

We have lots of resources to help plugin developers prepare for Confluence 4.0 upgrades. This page is a good starting point: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Preparing+for+Confluence+4.0

If you have any specific questions or problems, please feel free to ask questions on this site and our community can help you out!