Double quotation causes failiur in Confluence Add Page Rest API

[Mustafa Abusalah]

When the content of the page has quotation, the call fails, any idea?

' {"type":"page","title":"new page-m","space":{"key":"xxx"},"parentId" : "3932626","body":{"storage":{"value":"<p>This "is" a new page</p>","representation":"storage"}}}'

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps) · Accepted solution]

In JSON, embedded double quotes need to be escaped using \". See this for instance.

[Stephan Hassenpflug]

Hi I was having some trouble with the same question. 

I found out that I need two backslashed to escape the quote. See my simple example below

import os,sys
import string,types
import httplib
import base64
import string
import json
from imaplib import Response_code
username="stephan.hassenpflug"
password="atlassianrocks"
host="wiki.url"
url= "/rest/api/content/"

def updatePageContent(pageID = '', title = '', body= ''):
	conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
	auth = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('\n', '')
	#get current version number, space, title
	conn.request("GET", url + pageID + "?expand=version,space")
	response = conn.getresponse()
	data = json.load(response)
	contentType = data["type"]
	if title == '':
		title = data["title"]
	space = data["space"]["key"]
	version = data["version"]["number"]

	#prepare message
	message = """{
	"id": "%(page)s",
	"type": "%(type)s",
	"title": "%(title)s",
	"space": {"key": "%(space)s"},
	"version": {"number": %(version)s,
				"minorEdit": false},
				"body": {"storage": {
					"value": "%(body)s",
					"representation": "storage" }}}
	""" % {'page': pageID, 'type' : contentType, 'title' : title, 'version': str(version + 1), 'space' : space, 'body' : body}
	conn.putrequest("PUT", "http://" + host + url + pageID )
	conn.putheader("Host", host)
	conn.putheader("User-Agent", "CIEL")
	conn.putheader("Content-type", "application/json")
	conn.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(message))
	conn.putheader("Authorization", "Basic %s" % auth)
	conn.endheaders()
	conn.send(message)
	print conn.getresponse().read()

# works as expacted
print updatePageContent('343299206', '', '<p>test</p>')
# is returning error
print updatePageContent('343299206', '', '<p>\"test\"</p>')
# is working
print updatePageContent('343299206', '', '<p>\\"test\\"</p>')