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Invoke-ConfluenceMethod

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NAME Invoke-ConfluenceMethod



SYNOPSIS

Invoke a specific call to a Confluence REST Api endpoint





SYNTAX

Invoke-Method [-Uri] <Uri> [[-Certificate] <X509Certificate>] [[-Caller] <Object>] [[-Method] {Default | Get |

Head | Post | Put | Delete | Trace | Options | Merge | Patch}] [[-Body] <String>] [[-Headers] <Hashtable>]

[[-GetParameters] <Hashtable>] [[-InFile] <String>] [[-OutFile] <String>] [[-OutputType] <Type>] [[-Credential]

<PSCredential>] [-RawBody] [-IncludeTotalCount] [-Skip <UInt64>] [-First <UInt64>] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

Make a call to a REST Api endpoint with all the benefits of ConfluencePS.



This cmdlet is what the other cmdlets call under the hood. It handles the authentication, parses the response,

handles exceptions from Confluence, returns specific objects and handles the differences between versions of

Powershell and Operating Systems.



ConfluencePS does not support any third-party plugins on Confluence. This cmdlet can be used to interact with REST

Api endpoints which are not already converted in ConfluencePS. It allows for anyone to use the same technics as

ConfluencePS uses internally for creating their own functions or modules. When used by a module, the Manifest

(.psd1) can define the dependency to ConfluencePS with the 'RequiredModules' property. This will import the module

if not already loaded or even download it from the PSGallery.





PARAMETERS

-Uri <Uri>

URI address of the REST API endpoint.



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Method <WebRequestMethod>

Method of the HTTP request.



Required? false

Position? 2

Default value GET

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Body <String>

Body of the HTTP request.



By default each character of the Body is encoded to a sequence of bytes. This enables the support of UTF8

characters. And was first reported here:

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/152 ... rs-in-json>



This behavior can be changed with -RawBody.



Required? false

Position? 3

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-RawBody [<SwitchParameter>]

Keep the Body from being encoded.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Headers <Hashtable>

Define a key-value set of HTTP headers that should be used in the call.



Required? false

Position? 4

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-GetParameters <Hashtable>

Define a key-value set of GET Parameters.



This is not mandatory, and can be integrated in the Uri. This parameter exists to facilitate the addition and

removal of parameters in particular for paging



Required? false

Position? 5

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-InFile <String>

Path to a file that will be uploaded with a multipart/form-data request.



This parameter does not validate the input in any way.



Required? false

Position? 6

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-OutFile <String>

Path to the file where the response should be stored to.



This parameter does not validate the input in any way



Required? false

Position? 7

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-OutputType <Type>

Define the Type of the object that will be returned by the call.



The casting to custom classes is done in private functions as uses the cast operator which throws a

terminating error in case the response can't be casted.



Required? false

Position? 8

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Credential <PSCredential>

Credentials to use for the authentication with the REST Api.



If no sessions is available, the request will be executed anonymously.



Required? false

Position? 9

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Certificate <X509Certificate>

Certificate to use for the authentication with the REST Api.



If no sessions is available, the request will be executed anonymously.



Required? false

Position? 10

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Caller <Object>

Context which will be used for throwing errors.



Required? false

Position? 11

Default value $PSCmdlet

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-IncludeTotalCount [<SwitchParameter>]

NOTE: Not yet implemented. Causes an extra output of the total count at the beginning. Note this is actually a

uInt64, but with a custom string representation.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value False

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-Skip <UInt64>

Controls how many objects will be skipped before starting output.



Defaults to 0.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value 0

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



-First <UInt64>

NOTE: Not yet implemented. Indicates how many items to return.



Required? false

Position? named

Default value None

Accept pipeline input? False

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS

System.Management.Automation.PSObject





ConfluencePS.Page





ConfluencePS.Space





ConfluencePS.Label





ConfluencePS.Icon





ConfluencePS.Version





ConfluencePS.User





ConfluencePS.Attachment







NOTES









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



Invoke-ConfluenceMethod -Uri https://contoso.com/rest/api/content -Credential $cred



Executes a GET request on the defined URI and returns a collection of PSCustomObject

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------



Invoke-ConfluenceMethod -Uri https://contoso.com/rest/api/content -OutputType [ConfluencePS.Page] -Credential $cred



Executes a GET request on the defined URI and returns a collection of ConfluencePS.Page

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------



$params = @{

Uri = "https://contoso.com/rest/api/content"

Method = "POST"

Credential = $cred

}

Invoke-ConfluenceMethod @params



Executes a POST request on the defined URI and returns a collection of ConfluencePS.Page.



This will example doesn't really do anything on the server, as the content API needs requires a value for the

BODY. See next example

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 --------------------------



$body = '{"type": "page", "space": {"key": "TS"}, "title": "My New Page", "body": {"storage": {"representation":

"storage"}, "value": "<p>LoremIpsum</p>"}}'

$params = @{

Uri = "https://contoso.com/rest/api/content"

Method = "POST"

Body = $body

Credential = $cred

}

Invoke-ConfluenceMethod @params



Executes a POST request with a JSON string in the BODY on the defined URI and returns a collection of

ConfluencePS.Page.

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 5 --------------------------



$params = @{

Uri = "https://contoso.com/rest/api/content"

GetParameters = @{

expand = "space,version,body.storage,ancestors"

limit = 30

}

Credential = $cred

}

Invoke-ConfluenceMethod @params



Executes a GET request on the defined URI with a Get Parameter that is resolved to look like this:

?expand=space,version,body.storage,ancestors&limit=30

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 6 --------------------------



$params = @{

Uri = "https://contoso.com/rest/api/content/10 ... attachment"

Method = "POST"

OutputType = [ConfluencePS.Attachment]

InFile = "c:\\temp\\confidentialData.txt"

Credential = $cred

}

Invoke-ConfluenceMethod @params



Executes a POST request on the defined URI and uploads the InFile with a multipart/form-data request. The response

of the request will be cast to an object of type ConfluencePS.Attachment.

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 7 --------------------------



$params = @{

Uri = "https://contoso.com/rest/api/content/10 ... ent/110001"

Method = "GET"

Headers = @{"Accept" = "text/plain"}

OutFile = "c:\\temp\\confidentialData.txt"

Credential = $cred

}

Invoke-ConfluenceMethod @params



Executes a GET request on the defined URI and stores the output on the File System. It also uses the Headers to

define what mimeTypes are expected in the response.



RELATED LINKS

Online Version: https://atlassianps.org/docs/Confluence ... ke-Method/

Confluence Cloud API https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/

Confluence Server API https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceSe ... st/latest/