Call Confluence REST from within Confluence

[Stefan Ernst]

Previously to 5.9 it was possible to define a TrustTokenAuthentication request and call Confluence REST through a Confluence Server plugin running on the same instance. With the deprecation of the SAL API I wanted to switch to ApplicationLinkService requests but fail to obtain the application link to Confluence itself.

ApplicationLink applicationLink = this.applicationLinkService.getPrimaryApplicationLink(ConfluenceApplicationType.class);

this returns null. Is there any way this can achieved?

I was hoping it would be possible to obtain a self-referencing application link

many thanks

[Stefan Ernst · Accepted solution]

I took a completely different approach and went back to the SAL API. The newly introduced sal-trust-api brings back the TrustTokenAuthentication via

TrustedRequest request = trustedRequestFactory.createTrustedRequest(methodType, baseUrl + requestURL);

request.addTrustedTokenAuthentication(this.getDomainName(baseUrl));

hope this will help someone who stumbles upon this in the future

[Prakhar Srivastav {Appfire}]

@Stefan Ernst

What getDomainName() method is doing for you?

I am trying this but it is not working as it is returning 404 while the same rest call works well from browser.

Regards

Prakhar

[Prakhar Srivastav {Appfire}]

No worries.

Got it working. Thanks!!