Creating a Confluence page with the REST API - what format to use for the content?

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I want to write some code that will use the REST API to create and maintain pages on Confluence Server entirely programmatically.

My question is how do I represent the content when I send it to the server? Do I use the storage format? If not, how do I specify the content?

Thanks.

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Yes, storage format is required for creating content.
https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/REST/latest/#content-createContent

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I have a follow-up query … since storage format is required, I’ve set up a “template” page that I’m using as the foundation for how the page is laid out. I’m then getting my code to basically build a page with similar storage content.

However, when I try to save the page to Confluence, it produces this error:

Undeclared namespace prefix "ac"

This is because the start of the storage format for the template page looks like this:

<ac:layout><ac:layout-section ac:type="single"><ac:layout-cell>

Can I put anything at the start of the content to declare the namespace so that Confluence is happy?

http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/readme.html suggests that I can add a bit to declare but adding the DOCTYPE line didn’t fix the error.

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The error I’m getting back from Confluence seems to be related to updating an existing page rather then creating a new page. I don’t get an error when creating a page with entirely the same content, so I’m going to investigate that further and post a separate topic if I can’t resolve it.