PUT Request without version number?

Question

Hi, Quick question: Can I do a PUT Request to Confluence API without having the version number updated? This is JSON I sent: { "version": { "number": 6 }, "title": "Does it work?", "type": "page", "body": { "storage": { "value": "

This is just TEXT I want to add

", "representation": "storage" } } } I want to increment the version counter automatically by one, because I will not know which version is next.

Battlebeard · Answer

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for reaching out to Atlassian community.

I have been looking into your question and can confirm the version number is a required parameter of the JSON request, so you would not be able to have confluence auto increment the version.

The only workaround I can suggest to this is to use the GET content REST API call to retrieve the current version number.

Here is an example curl command:

curl -D- -u $userName:$passWord -X GET -H "Accept: application/json" https://$confluenceInstanceUrl/rest/api/content/$contentId?expand=version

This could be worked into a script in which you extract the version from the JSON response, increment that by 1 and feed it into the JSON of your PUT command.

I hope this helps somewhat even though it's not exactly what you were looking for.

Let us know if there is anything else.

Thanks,

Nero

Battlebeard · Answer

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