SOLVED - Cloud API: next links in results stopped working

#1

Hi,
Requesting a page with its children, for example:

/wiki/rest/api/content/1185808839/child/page

I get the lists with next links, here is a snippet from a response from you (confluence cloud API) just a few minutes ago, for example:

start: 0,
limit: 25,
size: 25,
_links: {
base: "https://HOSTXXX/wiki",
context: "/wiki",
next: "/rest/api/content/1185808839/child/page?next=true&limit=25&start=25",
self: "https://HOSTXXX/wiki/rest/api/content/1185808839/child/page"
}

The next link you provide in this API response is broken, does not work. It returns a 404:

<status>
<status-code>404</status-code>
<message>null for uri: https://HOSTXXXX/rest/api/content/1185808839/child/page?next=true&limit=25&start=25</message>
</status>

this has worked for a long time and worked a few weeks ago, trying this today Sept 9th it does not. Other requests work as expected.

I have searched and looked through changes to the API, the only related thing I could find is the change to cursors, but in that note it clearly said that following the next links returned by the confluence API should work.

What am I missing? Please help.

BR! /marcus
PS
Thanks to @nathanwaters for the tip on the thread on the pagination API changes, I have posted this same info and question in that thread; Upcoming changes to modernize search REST APIs

I did not see it before - I relied on the info atlassian posted on this change, this page: “Upcoming changes to Confluence Cloud REST APIs to modernize search”, https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/change-notice-moderize-search-rest-apis/

Where they wrote: “To make sure your search code continues to work before, during, and after this change, use the prev and next links returned in the HTTP response instead of constructing them yourself.”

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#2

Might be worth replying in here: Upcoming changes to modernize search REST APIs

#4

I can reproduce it. It also happens on /wiki/rest/api/content/1185808839/child?expand=page and on /wiki/rest/api/content/1185808839?expand=children.page.

All I can think about for a workaround is using CQL: /wiki/rest/api/search?cql=type=page%20and%20parent=1185808839. Be aware that newly created pages can only be found a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes after creation through CQL, and sometimes there are bugs where on some instances some pages can simply not be found.

#5

Thanks. I have made some progress. I think there may have been some slight changes in how the links node is populated, maybe. I think I will fix my code to the new.

OT: Looking at it in more detail I think it looks like that the _links object gets populated differently across different responses from the API. Not sure if that is intended. Oh well, hopefully, my stuff will soon work again.

#6

In this error message you’re not including the whole base url https://HOSTXXX/wiki you’re missing the context /wiki

I’m just making sure this isn’t the problem before pinging the engineering team.

#7

Thanks.
Yes, I think you’re right. I redid the code for how the url’s were composed and it works now.
Sorry for the confusion.

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#8

Ah, my bad. I was confused that there was no cursor there, but I guess that is not used for the child endpoints.