Get a page's immediate ancestor (parent) using Confluence REST API?

[Joshua Senecal]

Is there a way to retrieve the ID of a page's immediate ancestor (parent) using the REST API? I'm able to get a list of all ancestors of a page, and assuming that list is ordered I can use it to determine the page's parent. However, in certain circumstances I've noticed the list is not in order, and can even contain duplicate entries, so I cannot reliably use the ancestor list itself to determine the parent of a page.

I'm using Confluence 5.6.3.

[Howard Zhang]

use this

rest/api/content/{id}?expand=ancestors

[Krishna M Digvijai]

above query will return all ancestors details.How immediate ancestor id will be identified?

[Bart Kerfeld]

I have also discovered there to be duplicates, however, I am not finding that the hierarchy is ever out of order. For me, every test I have run has shown the last result being the immediate ancestor to the page I look for. Method Type: GET Url: http://base_url/rest/api/content/CONTENTID?expand=ancestors I then get a json result which I convert to XML since I like dealing with it more in C# XmlDocument doc = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(jsonResponse, "root"); XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes("/root/ancestors"); string title = ""; foreach (XmlNode node in nodes) { title = node["title"].InnerText; } return title; This has not failed for me and I have tried several things do try to mess with it (deleting then restoring pages, flipping parent and child in hierarchy, changing spaces etc...). Do you know what you did that caused the order to be changed so that I can try to replicate the problem?

[WestonM]

I'm also interested in this. According the API, you can only browse "down". There's an "ancestor" property, but I've found it to be blank.

[Ismar_Slomic]

Im interested in this as well. Any input?

[Greg Miller]

I can't believe no one has answered this. I'm trying to figure out how to set the parentId of a newly created page. It's not clear from the REST API examples.