Links changed in Confluence document when updating via API

[Matthew Casperson]

In Confluence 5.5.2 I have run into an issue where updating a page via the REST API is modifying some links.

The original document contains links that to point to something like http://localhost:8090/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1234567, and were assigned to custom text like "I love icecream".

When I get the storage XML for this document and post it back without any modifications to these links the resulting page contains a link to the same destination document, but with the current title of the document instead of the custom text. So if the title of the document was "I love icecream and chocolate", the resulting page has the text "I love icecream and chocolate" instead of "I love icecream" in it despite the fact that I have made no changes to the link before sending it back to the Confluence REST API.

Is this a bug, or is there some way around this renaming of links?

[Steven F Behnke]

Source of the two different page-links just as an FYI, I don't have a solution:

<ac:link>
	<ri:page ri:content-title="Test Page"/>
</ac:link>

<ac:link>
	<ri:page ri:content-title="Test Page"/>
 	<ac:plain-text-link-body><![CDATA[Test]]></ac:plain-text-link-body>
</ac:link>