Editing pages created via /rest/api/content

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#1

Hey everyone,

I have a plugin that creates a new page via /rest/api/content. This is the body data:

    const bodyData = `{
      "title": "${newPageTitle.value}",
      "type": "page",
      "space": {
        "key": "${context.confluence.space.key}"
      },
      "ancestors": [
        {
          "id": "${context.confluence.content.id}"
        }
      ],
      "body": {
        "storage": {
          "value": "<some html here whatever goes>",
          "representation": "storage"
        }
      }
    }`;

The problem here is that the page created this way has a different edit URL which in turn causes the “old” editor to be rendered which doesn’t provide the best user experience. The edit links are as follows:

I’ve redacted some of the values (don’t know if it’s private :D).

My first question is what is the difference between types of body (storage, view, …)? And second, how to get the same editing type? Do I have to add a parameter or something like that?

Thanks in advance

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#3

If anyone is interested, the solution is to set metadata.property editor to “v2”.

I’ve done it in the success function of AP.request that creates a new page (POST to /rest/api/content) since the response from that call includes the id of the newly created page. Check out create content property REST documentation

However, I have a feeling this can be all done in the same request as that link says:

Content properties can also be added when creating a new piece of content by including them in the metadata.properties of the request.

but I haven’t managed to find a way to set it when creating new content.

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#4

Thanks @ChupaCabra

Did you ever figure out how to include in the new content API call?

I am stuck in the same place.

#5

Hey, unfortunately, the current solution is good enough for me for now so I didn’t even try anything else. If I ever get back to this and if I find a solution, I’ll post here again, but I’m not sure when I’ll get back to refactoring it.

#6

This seems to work when hitting the wiki/rest/api/content/ endpoint

{
  "title": "Test Page from API editor v2",
  "type": "page",
  "space": {
    "key": "TS1"
  },
  "status": "current",
  "ancestors": [
    {
      "id": "1239286918"
    }
  ],
  "body": {
    "storage": {
      "value": "Test content",
      "representation": "storage"
    }
  },
  "metadata": {
  	"properties":{
	  	"editor": {
	  		"value": "v2"
	  	}
  	}
  }
}
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#7

Indeed it does. Thank you for this