Import Word Doc to Conflunce via ReST API

[Jonathan Martin]

I'd like to keep my product reference documentation close to my code so I'm storing it in SCM. I'd like to publish that documentation to Confluence with each release. I've looked into a Maven plugin that publishes Confluence wiki text from the project's site. However, developers on my team don't want to write wiki markup for their docs.

Is there a way to import word docs via Confluence's ReST API? I've looked through the API browser and nother jumps out.

Or is there a good WYSIWYG editor for Eclipse Confluence markup? (Not Mylyn WikiText... that's just for previewing).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT] · Accepted solution]

Upload the doc and use the viewword macro. Then you can replace the doc in the future via webdav. You can mount your space or page as remote filesystem (ee.g. as network drive in windows) and then just copy the file via maven or ant to your desired destination. But don't change the filename ;)

[Jonathan Martin]

This sounds like a viable solution. In this scenario would the initial doc upload be manual? If automated, what API's are available?

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]]

Take a look on https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence

Just copy the file in maven to the webdav location (which can be a network drive)

[Jonathan Martin]

Thanks. I haven't proved it out yet but looks like this will work.

[Torsten Schmidt]

Hi Steve, when I want to show Word documents in Confluence that are stored in Sharepoint, do I still hava to configure a WebDAV client?

Best regards,

Torsten