I am trying to search for examples and details for any Java REST API client for Confluence/Wiki which i can use instead of writing home grown code to serialize and deserialize etc.
Same Q is also posted here and its unanswered with solution. Please advise
Atlassian Community – 21 Mar 18
@BarathSubramaniam
, welcome to the Atlassian developer community.
I can confirm that Atlassian does not maintain such a client library. However, we do maintain Open API specifications for Confluence REST APIs that you may be able to use to generate a Java client via
Swagger CodeGen
.
It’s a good question for the community because I know there are various language-specific clients around for different Atlassian products.
Sorry
@StefanD
, didn’t realize the original question has been about Server.
I’m afraid there has never been any official Open API specification for Atlassian Server products. That being said, most Atlassian Java based products use
Jersey
under the hood, which provides
Web Application Description Language (WADL)
support out of the box under a well known runtime URL, e.g. for our Confluence instance:
https://{{host}}/wiki/rest/api/latest/application.wadl
Once you have your WADL document, you can try to derive an Open API specification via one of the few converters that support WADL, e.g.
API Spec Converter
.
Good luck!
PS: IIRC these WADL documents also used to be linked from the Server REST API reference of all products but Confluence, e.g. that’s still the case for
Jira 8.2.1
:
There is a
WADL
document that contains the documentation for each resource in the Jira REST API. It is available
here
.
However, be warned that the Atlassian Server platform docs are badly maintained for years and often misleading or entirely defunct by now, and in light of Server EOL and Atlassian’s aggressive prioritization of its Cloud platform, there seems to be close to zero chances that this will ever be addressed, all the Data Center approved apps and quality rhetoric notwithstanding …
