Confluence Source

The Confluence source allows DDF to pull pages/comments/attachments from a Confluence REST API and turns the results into Metacards the system can use.

Confluence Source has been tested against the following versions of Confluence with REST API v2

Confluence 1000.444.5 (Cloud)
Confluence 5.10.6 (Server)
Confluence 5.10.7 (Server)

Source Configuration Properties

Name	Description

Name	Description
Confluence Rest URL	`The Confluence Rest API endpoint URL. Example: https://<host>:<port>/rest/api/content`
Username	`Username to use with HTTP Basic Authentication. This auth info will overwrite any federated auth info. Only set this if the Confluence endpoint requires basic authentication.`
Password	`Password to use with HTTP Basic Authentication. This auth info will overwrite any federated auth info. Only set this if the Confluence endpoint requires basic authentication.`
Include Page Contents In Results	`Flag indicating if Confluence page contents should be included in the returned results.` If page contents not included in results then the returned metacards will not have the `description` or `metadata` fields set
Include Archived Spaces	`Flag indicating if archived confluence spaces should be included in search results.`
Exclude Confluence Spaces	`Flag indicating if the list of Confluence Spaces should be excluded from searches instead of included.`
Confluence Spaces	`The confluence spaces to include/exclude from searches. If no spaces are specified all visible spaces will be searched.` A confluence space must be set in order for wildcard only searches to work
Additional Attributes	`Additional attributes to add to confluence metacards returned from this source.` This can be used to add security attributes to the metacards returned. See Security (Alliance) for a list of the security attributes that could be used. Also note that you will need to map these attributes in DDF Catalog → Metacard Attribute Security Policy Plugin → Metacard Union Attributes configuration. Example mapping could look like `security.classification=classification`
Availability Poll Interval	`Availability polling interval in milliseconds`

Confluence Query Restrictions

Most of the fields that can be queried on confluence have some sort of restriction on them. The tables below try to capture most of the restrictions. Most of the fields do not support the `like` aka `~` operation so the source will convert `like` queries to 'equal` queries for attributes that don't support 'like'. If the source receives a query with attributes it doesn't understand, it will just ignore them. If the query doesn't contain any attributes that map to confluence search attributes, an empty result set will be returned.

Attachment Downloads

Depending on your version of Confluence, when downloading attachments you might get redirected to a different download URL. If this happens the default URLResourceReader configuration does not allow redirects and will fail the download. This can be fixed by enabling redirects in the URLResourceReader configuration.

Common Taxonomy Attributes (https://codice.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DDF/Attributes)

Attribute Name	Source	Query Restrictions

Attribute Name	Source	Query Restrictions
created	history.createDate	>, <, =
description	First 256 characters of the Confluence entry body	Not directly queryable.
id	Uses the Confluence id as the metacard id.	=, !=
metacard-tags	resource, confluence
metadata	Tika-like formatted xml containing the entire text body of the Confluence entry	Queryable via `anyText` ~, !~
modified	history.lastModified.when	>, <, =
resource-download-url	_links.download	Not directly queryable.
resource-size	extensions.fileSize	Not directly queryable.
resource-uri	_links.download	Not directly queryable.
title	title	=, !=, ~, !~
associations.external	_links.webui, _links.base, space._links.webui	Not directly queryable.
contact.contributor-name	history.contributors.publishers.users.username	=, !=
contact.creator-name	history.createdBy.username	=, !=
media.type	metadata.mediaType	Not directly queryable.
metacard.created	history.createDate	>, <, =
metacard.modified	history.lastModified.when	>, <, =
security.access-groups	restrictions.read.restrictions.group.name	Not directly queryable.
security.access-individuals	restrictions.read.restrictions.user.username	Not directly queryable.
topic.keyword	metadata.labels.results.name	=, !=
topic.category	type	=, !=
topic.vocabulary	https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-server-rest-api/advanced-searching-using-cql/cql-field-reference#CQLFieldReference-titleTitleType	Not directly queryable.

Some Examples from the DDF Search UI

(Page result left, attachment result right)

Example Metadata

Decision

Added Confluence Source.

https://github.com/codice/ddf/tree/2.27.x/catalog/confluence/catalog-confluence-source