Confluence OnDemand Remote API -- what are my options?

[David J. Lewis]

What are my options for retrieving from and/or updating my Confluence OnDemand instance via a remote API? Sorry for such an elementary question, but I'm not getting a clear answer from perusing the docs. If it's possible, then I'd be grateful for pointers to getting-started docs.

Thanks.

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps) · Accepted solution]

1. Confluence SOAP APIs are the most complete
2. Confluence REST APIs are minimal and mainly for getting content
3. Confluence Command Line Interface if you don't want to do the programming :). It is primarily based on the SOAP APIs.

[David J. Lewis]

Thanks you! No JSON, eh? And is there an eti for a complete REST API?

[David J. Lewis]

I see that ACLI works with Confluence OnDemand, but it is unclear me from browsing the docs how to install it and how to communicate with it.

Thanks. --David

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)]

ACLI installs on a client system that communicates with servers like Confluence via remote APIs (SOAP and/or REST APIs depending on the Atlassian product). See Installation and Use.

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)]

Let's try doing the link again: Installation and Use

[David J. Lewis]

Of course -- d'oh!

[David J. Lewis]

Hi:

What I want to do is write Ruby programs on Windows to access and update my OnDemand Confluence wiki. Will the ACLI allow me to do that via "autoamtion".

The term "automation" on Windows usually means OLE servers, accessed programmatically with the Win32OLE package...

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/win32.html

I'm guessing it means something else in the ACLI, however.

Thanks. --David

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)]

Almost any scripting language allows you to run shell commands, so yes. Regarding "automation", there is nothing special about that term other than it just happens to be the ACLI default name of the user id to use - you can use whatever user id you want for your instance that has the permissions needed.