Confluence Publisher

Set of tools to help publish documentation to Confluence. It includes:

• conf_publisher
• conf_page_maker
• conf_page_dumper

This tools use own configuration file.

For now it supports:

• confluence versions: 5.5 - 5.9
• sphinx-build formats: "fjson", "html"

Why?

This tools are written as part of our Documentation Toolkit which we use in our job daily. The main idea of toolkit is to make a process of creating and updating documentation able to be automated

Other parts of our toolkit is:

• py2swagger
• swagger2rst
• sphinx-confluence
• confluence-publisher

Install

Install Confluence Publisher from PyPI with

$ pip install confluence-publisher

Publisher

$ conf_publisher config.yml --auth XXXXXjpwYXNzdXXXXX==

If a config doesn't contain page.id, you can use conf_page_maker command to create a page and page ID will be put into config automatically.

usage: conf_publisher [-h] [-u URL] [-a AUTH] [-F] [-w WATERMARK] [-l LINK]
                      [-ht] [-v]
                      config

Publish documentation (Sphinx fjson) to Confluence

positional arguments:
  config                Configuration file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u URL, --url URL     Confluence Url
  -a AUTH, --auth AUTH  Base64 encoded user:password string
  -F, --force           Publish not changed page.
  -w WATERMARK, --watermark WATERMARK
                        Overrides the watermarks. Also can be "False" to
                        remove all watermarks; or "True" to add watermarkswith
                        default text: "Automatically generated content. Do not
                        edit directly." on all pages.
  -l LINK, --link LINK  Overrides page link. If value is "False" then removes
                        the link.
  -ht, --hold-titles    Do not change page titles while publishing.
  -v, --verbose

Page Maker

$ conf_page_maker config.yml --auth XXXXXjpwYXNzdXXXXX== --parent-id 52332132

usage: conf_page_maker [-h] [-u URL] [-a AUTH] [-pid PARENT_ID] [-v] config

Create Confluence pages and update configuration file with it ids

positional arguments:
  config                Configuration file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u URL, --url URL     Confluence Url
  -a AUTH, --auth AUTH  Base64 encoded user:password string. Required.
  -pid PARENT_ID, --parent-id PARENT_ID
                        Parent page ID in confluence.
  -v, --verbose

Page dumper

usage: conf_page_dumper [-h] [-u URL] [-a AUTH] [-o OUTPUT] page_id

Dumps Confluence page in storage format

positional arguments:
  page_id               Configuration file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u URL, --url URL     Confluence Url
  -a AUTH, --auth AUTH  Base64 encoded user:password string
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file|stdout|stderr

Configuration file format

Directives:

• version (required) Config version. Current is 2.
• url (required) Base Confluence URL.
• base_dir (required) Directory containing json to be published.
• downloads_dir (optional) Default is _downloads
• images_dir (optional) Default is _images
• source_ext (optional) Default is .fjson

• pages (required) Pages to be published.

  • id (required) Confluence page ID. If page does not exists, create it with conf_page_maker.
  • title (optional)
  • source (required) Path to json associated with the page
  • link (optional) Link under watermark (for example to source rst in repo).
  • watermark (optional) Watermark to put on page. E.g.: "Automatically generated content. Do not edit directly"".

  • attachments (optional) Files to be attached.

    • images
      • path_to_img1
      • path_to_img2
    • downloads
      • path_to_file1
      • path_to_file2

  • pages Subpages to be published.

    • ... same structure as for pages

Config example

  version: 2
  url: https://confluence.atlassian.com
  base_dir: docs/build/json
  pages:
  - attachments:
      downloads:
      - check_required_keywords.sh
    id: 49807825
    source: part_1/newcomers
    watermark: <b>Automatic Publish</b>
    link: https://github.com/pet-project/doc.rst
  - id: 49807842
    pages:
    - id: 49807843
      source: part_1/development/start
    - id: 49807844
      source: part_1/development/structure
    - id: 49807845
      source: part_1/development/documentation
    - id: 49807846
      source: part_1/development/logs
    source: part_1/development/index
  - attachments:
      downloads:
      - release.sh
    id: 49807847
    source: part_1/release
  - id: 49807848
    source: part_1/deployment
  - id: 49807849
    source: part_1/tools
  - id: 49807850
    source: part_1/plans
  - attachments:
      images:
      - 38-aval_1.jpg
      - 38-aval_2.jpg
    id: 49807851
    source: part_2/availability

or more JSONify style:

{
  version: 2,
  base_dir: "result",
  pages: [
    {
      id: 52136662,
      source: "release_history"
    }
  ]
}