Category: Searching

Once upon a time, things were simple.  If you wanted to retrieve a page using the Confluence Java API, you simply called getPage().    Fetching Spaces was similarly easy, and intuitive.

Those days are over.  The methods are deprecated. Instead, we now need to use SpaceService and ContentService to manage spaces and content, respectively.  Let’s take a look at some examples of how a task would have been accomplished with the PageManager and SpaceManager, and compare that to how those tasks would be accomplished today.

This the code required to return all page content for all spaces, using PageManager and Spacemanager:
 import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.PageManager
import com.atlassian.sal.api.component.ComponentLocator
import com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.SpaceManager

def spaceManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SpaceManager)
def pageManager = ComponentLocator.getComponent(PageManager)

def spaces = spaceManager.getAllSpaces()

spaces.each { space ->
    def pagesInSpace = pageManager.getPages(space, true)
    
    pagesInSpace.each { page ->
        log.warn(page.getBodyAsString())
    }
}

 

Here’s the same code, using the SpaceService and ContentService classes:

 import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.Expansions
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.content.ContentRepresentation
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.content.ContentBody
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.content.Content
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.content.Space
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.Expansion
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.pagination.PageResponse
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.content.SpaceService
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.content.ContentService
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.content.ContentType
import com.onresolve.scriptrunner.runner.ScriptRunnerImpl
import com.atlassian.confluence.api.model.pagination.SimplePageRequest


def contentService = ScriptRunnerImpl.getPluginComponent(ContentService)
def spaceService = ScriptRunnerImpl.getPluginComponent(SpaceService)
 
SimplePageRequest pageRequest = new SimplePageRequest(0, 10)
 
PageResponse < Space > spaceResults = spaceService.find(new Expansion('name')).fetchMany(new SimplePageRequest(0, 10))
 
List < Space >
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A long long time ago, I posted a complaint to this blog about how I had no idea what a Jira SearchContext was, and how it was very frustrating to try to figure it out.

Yesterday I realized that I had never really made any strides toward fixing my lack of knowledge around the search functionality of Jira.  I’m not talking JQL, I’m talking the actual Search Service waayyy down in the guts of Jira.

I set out wanting to update the permissions for a list of filters on Jira Server, based on the name of the server.  The list of filter names came from a migration we were doing from Jira Server to Jira Cloud. JCMA returned a list of the names of forty filters that were publicly accessible.  My task was to go in and update those permissions.  As I was going to have to repeat this process multiple times, it seemed an excellent candidate for a scripted solution.

As it turns out, it is extremely difficult to search for filters by name.   You can search for filters by their ID without issue, but searching by name is essentially not possible.

My next idea was to simply wipe

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