foliantcontrib.confluence 0.6.10

Confluence backend for Foliant documentation generator.

Confluence backend for Foliant

Confluence backend generates confluence articles and uploads them on your confluence server. It can create and edit pages in Confluence with content based on your Foliant project.

It also has a feature of restoring the user inline comments, added for the article, even after the commented fragment was changed.

This backend adds the confluence target for your Foliant make command.

Installation

$ pip install foliantcontrib.confluence

The backend requires Pandoc to be installed in your system. Pandoc is needed to convert Markdown into HTML.

Usage

To upload a Foliant project to Confluence server use make confluence command:

$ foliant make confluence
Parsing config... Done
Making confluence... Done
────────────────────
Result:
https://my_confluence_server.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=123 (Page Title)

Config

You have to set up the correct config for this backend to work properly.

Specify all options in backend_config.confluence section:

backend_config:
  confluence:
    host: 'https://my_confluence_server.org'
    login: user
    password: user_password
    id: 124443
    title: Title of the page
    space_key: "~user"
    parent_id: 124442
    parent_title: Parent
    test_run: false
    notify_watchers: false
    toc: false
    restore_comments: true
    resolve_if_changed: false
    pandoc_path: pandoc
    codeblocks:
        ...

host : Required Host of your confluence server.

login : Login of the user who has permissions to create and update pages. If login is not supplied, it will be prompted during the build.

password : Password of the user. If the password is not supplied, it will be prompted during the build.

id : ID of the page where the content will be uploaded. Only for already existing pages

title : Title of the page to be created or updated.

Remember that page titles in the space have to be unique.

space_key : The space key where the page(s) will be created/edited. Only for not yet existing pages.

parent_id : ID of the parent page under which the new one(s) should be created. Only for not yet existing pages.

parent_title : Another way to define the parent of the page. Lower priority than paren_di. Title of the parent page under which the new one(s) should be created. The parent should exist under the space_key specified. Only for not yet existing pages.

test_run : If this option is true, Foliant will prepare the files for uploading to Confluence, but won't actually upload them. Use this option for testing your content before upload. The prepared files can be found in .confluencecache/debug folder. Default: false

notify_watchers : If true — watchers will be notified that the page has changed. Default: false

toc : Set to true to add a table of contents to the beginning of the document. Default: false

restore_comments : Attempt to restore inline comments near the same places after updating the page. Default: true

resolve_if_changed : Delete inline comment from the source if the commented text was changed. This will automatically mark the comment as resolved. Default: false

pandoc_path : Path to Pandoc executable (Pandoc is used to convert Markdown into HTML).

codeblocks : Configuration for converting Markdown code blocks into code-block macros. See details in Code blocks processing sections.

User's guide

Uploading articles

By default, if you specify id or space_key and title in foliant.yml, the whole project will be built and uploaded to this page.

If you wish to upload separate chapters into separate articles, you need to specify the respective id or space_key and title in meta section of the chapter.

Meta section is a YAML-formatted field-value section in the beginning of the document, which is defined like this:

---
field: value
field2: value
---

Your chapter md-content

If you want to upload a chapter into confluence, add its properties under the confluence key like this:

---
confluence:
    title: My confluence page
    space_key: "~user"
---

You chapter md-content

Important notice! Both modes work together. If you specify the id1 in foliant.yml and id2 in chapter's meta — the whole project will be uploaded to the page with id1, and the specific chapter will also be uploaded to the page with id2.

Creating pages

If you want a new page to be created for content in your Foliant project, just supply in foliant.yml the space key and a title that does not yet exist in this space. Remember that in Confluence page titles are unique inside one space. If you use a title of an already existing page, the backend will attempt to edit it and replace its content with your project.

Example config for this situation is:

backend_config:
  confluence:
    host: https://my_confluence_server.org
    login: user
    password: pass
    title: My unique title
    space_key: "~user"

Now if you change the title in your config, confluence will create a new page with the new title, leaving the old one intact.

If you want to change the title of your page, the answer is in the following section.

Updating pages

Generally to update the page contents you may use the same config you used to create it (see the previous section). If the page with a specified title exists, it will be updated.

Also, you can just specify the id of an existing page. After build its contents will be updated.

backend_config:
  confluence:
    host: https://my_confluence_server.org
    login: user
    password: pass
    id: 124443

This is also the only way to edit a page title. If title param is specified, the backend will attempt to change the page's title to the new one:

backend_config:
  confluence:
    host: https://my_confluence_server.org
    login: user
    password: pass
    id: 124443
    title: New unique title

Updating part of a page

Confluence backend can also upload an article into the middle of a Confluence page, leaving all the rest of it intact. To do this you need to add an Anchor into your page in the place where you want Foliant content to appear.

1. Go to Confluence web interface and open the article.
2. Go to Edit mode.
3. Put the cursor in the position where you want your Foliant content to be inserted and start typing {anchor to open the macros menu and locate the Anchor macro.
4. Add an anchor with the name foliant.
5. Save the page.

Now if you upload content into this page (see two previous sections), Confluence backend will leave all text which was before and after the anchor intact, and add your Foliant content in the middle.

You can also add two anchors: foliant_start and foliant_end. In this case, all text between these anchors will be replaced by your Foliant content.

Inserting raw confluence tags

If you want to supplement your page with confluence macros or any other storage-specific HTML, you may do it by wrapping them in the <raw_confluence></raw_confluence> tag.

For example, if you wish to add a table of contents into the middle of the document for some reason, you can do something like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Odit dolorem nulla quam doloribus delectus voluptate.

<raw_confluence><ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="1" ac:name="toc" ac:schema-version="1"/></raw_confluence>

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Officiis, laboriosam cumque soluta sequi blanditiis, voluptatibus quaerat similique nihil debitis repellendus.

Code blocks processing

Since 0.6.9 backend converts Markdown code blocks into Confluence code-block macros. You can tune the macros appearance by specifying some options in codeblocks config section of Confluence backend

backend_config:
    confluence:
        codeblocks:  # all are optional
            theme: django
            title: Code example
            linenumbers: false
            collapse: false

theme : Color theme of the code blocks. Should be one of:

• emacs,
• django,
• fadetogrey,
• midnight,
• rdark,
• eclipse,
• confluence.

title : Title of the code block.

linenumbers : Show line numbers in code blocks. Default: false

collapse : Collapse code blocks into a clickable bar. Default: false

Right now Foliant only converts code blocks by backticks\tildes (tabbed code blocks are ignored for now):

This code block will be converted:

```python
def test2():
    pass
 ```

And this:
~~~
def test3():
    pass
~~~

Syntax name, defined after backticks\tildes is converted into its Confluence counterpart. Right now following syntaxes are supported:

• actionscript,
• applescript,
• bash,
• c,
• c,
• coldfusion,
• cpp,
• cs,
• css,
• delphi,
• diff,
• erlang,
• groovy,
• html,
• java,
• javascript,
• js,
• perl,
• php,
• powershell,
• python,
• xml,
• yaml.

Credits

The following wonderful tools and libraries are used in foliantcontrib.confluence:

• Atlassian Python API wrapper,
• BeautifulSoup,
• PyParsing.

Confluence Preprocessor for Foliant

Confluence preprocessor allows inserting content from Confluence server into your Foliant project.

Installation

$ pip install foliantcontrib.confluence

Config

To enable the preprocessor, add confluence to preprocessors section in the project config:

preprocessors:
    - confluence

The preprocessor has a number of options:

preprocessors:
    - confluence:
        host: https://my_confluence_server.org
        login: user
        password: user_password
        space_key: "~user"
        pandoc_path: pandoc

host : Required Host of your confluence server. If not stated — it would be taken from Confluence backend config.

login : Login of the user who has permissions to create and update pages. If login is not supplied, it would be taken from backend config, or prompted during the build.

password : Password of the user. If password is not supplied, it would be taken from backend config, or prompted during the build.

space_key : The space key where the page titles will be searched for.

pandoc_path : Path to Pandoc executable (Pandoc is used to convert Confluence content into Markdown).

Usage

Add a <confluence></confluence> tag at the position in the document where the content from Confluence should be inserted. The page is defined by its id or title. If you are specifying page by title, you will also need to set space_key either in tag or in the preprocessor options.

The following content is imported from Confluence:

<confluence id="12345"></confluence>

This is from Confluence too, but determined by page title (space key is defined in preprocessor config):

<confluence title="My Page"></confluence>

Here we are overriding space_key:

<confluence space_key="ANOTHER_SPACE" title="My Page"></confluence>