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Overwrite an attachment in Confluence using REST API

Tobbe G

Hi,
I have an embedded Excel sheet on a page in Confluence (version 5.10.4) that I want to update on a daily basis. When I use the REST-api as described below i cant overwrite an existing attachment. Is there a work around for this?

curl -D- -u user:pass -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: no-check" -F "file=@export.xlsx" https://wiki.xyz.com/rest/api/content/63459897/child/attachment/

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-ASEN: SEN-2412214
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=5F3AA70B086187DF857F2F7C43350B6; Path=/; HttpOnly
X-Seraph-LoginReason: OK
X-AUSERNAME: user
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:16:37 GMT
X-Cnection: close
Set-Cookie: Site=!w9E67t/RiK/og3NjjX1iLPx+upVsmJEKY2C/ELZac2NYeWE5o8xzX588IVwH5yfISRMm6Cuh1P4=; path=/; Httponly; Secure

{"statusCode":400,"data":{"authorized":false,"valid":true,"errors":[],"successful":false,"notSuccessful":true},"message":"Cannot add a new attachment with same file name as an existing attachment: export.xlsx"}

Accepted answers

Hasnae

Have you tried using the following documented api ?

https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/6.5.2/#content/{id}/child/attachment-updateData

(which I believe is also compatible with 5.10.4)

You basically need the attachment ID to be able to update it

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Hasnae

Have you tried using the following documented api ?

https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/6.5.2/#content/{id}/child/attachment-updateData

(which I believe is also compatible with 5.10.4)

You basically need the attachment ID to be able to update it

Tobbe G

Hi,

The update method worked when I used the Attachment-ID.

Thanks!

Marisa Voss

How come the following code doesn't work? It keeps telling me I'm updating Unsupported Media Type... but this person was able to upload an .xlsx file. I've been struggling with this problem for weeks trying different variations of this header. I know it's not the same command they are using above, but there has to be a way to do the same process in python with the REST API, right?

CODE FOLLOWS:

req = requests.Session()
print("Hello")
url='https://confluence.<mycompany>.com/rest/api'
base_url = url
att = {'file': open("items-list2.xlsx", 'rb')}
headers = {"X-Atlassian-Token": "nocheck", "Content_Type": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet", "X-Content-Type-Options": "nosniff", "Accept" : "application/json"}
print("base: {} with spreadsheetml.sheet".format(base_url))
attID = 'myAttID'
r = req.get('{}/content/{}'.format(base_url, attID), headers=headers, auth = (username, password), files = att)

if (r.status_code < 300):
print(r.headers)

print(r)
print(r.text)
print(" ")
print('~~~~ failed to upload file ~~~~')

ERROR follows:

~~~~~~~~~~~~
<Response [415]>
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/8.0.48 - Error report</title><style type="text/css">H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}.line {height: 1px; background-color: #525D76; border: none;}</style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 415 - Unsupported Media Type</h1><div class="line"></div><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u>Unsupported Media Type</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>The server refused this request because the request entity is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.</u></p><hr class="line"><h3>Apache Tomcat/8.0.48</h3></body></html>

~~~~ failed to upload file ~~~~

Szymon Hubar

Hi,

Attachment-ID it's the same as "entityid" in attachments page source.

e.g.

curl -k -v -S -u admin:admin -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: no-check" -F "file=@file.txt" -F "comment=new stats" "https://my-instance/rest/api/content/66682896/child/attachment/66682908/data" | python -mjson.tool

thx @Hasnae

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