Confluence Json respone

[Lena Gurevich]

Hi,

We went with REST Confluence recently. No matter what I do as a respose I get HTML, but no Jason.

thank you, Lena

[Lena Gurevich]

Just tried it. The same http answer. What do you mean by "use some rest client", I am the first REST client.

thanks a lot, Lena

[Andreas Purde]

Dear Lena,

I know that Confluence returns HTML in case you have a malformed REST call or run in error with a correct call. I would suggest to try your call first using curl or something similar.

Andreas

[Lena Gurevich]

Just tried it - the same answer. What do you mean by "use some rest client"?

thanks a lot, Lena

[Panos]

You wanna talk "REST", there are libraries that help you do that and avoid common pitfalls such as you didn't close streams in the snippet. AsyncHttpClient is one of them. Again, the server needs to talk json, to me it seems that server talks html/text.

[Panos]

It would be better if you use some rest client, it would make your life easier. Much easier. Anyway, your 

connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");

is declaring that you will send json. Not what you will receive. Change the content-type to "Accept" but it won't help you if the server doesnt send back json. 

[Lena Gurevich]

Panos, I do appreciate your answer.I've written a Confluence crawler based on rpcxml three years ago and it worked fine. Now the Confluence server is RESR and I dont'd have an admin rights to it. Also, all processed docs from Confluence are to be placed into solr. So I am a Java client. Instaed of Json I am getting http. Here is my code:

              try {

                     connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
                    InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
                    new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream());                        
                    BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
                    String line;
                    while (true) {
                       line = r.readLine();
                       if (line== null) {
                           break;
 
                       }
                   }
                    logger.info("Number of Processed sites = "+ totalProcessedNumber);

...

thanks a lot, Lena
 

[Panos]

You need to provide some example code as well as more information. Are you poking custom resources? Are you poking confluence's resources? Is it javascript? java?