Programmatically set user to watch a Confluence page.

[Vince Allen]

I would like to programmatically assign a user to watch a page in my Confluence instance using the Java API. I suspect I need to implement the addNotification() method from the DefaultNotificationManager Class. However, when ever I try, I get "Target exception: java.lang.NullPointerException". 

Can someone provide an example? Thx!

[Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders- · Accepted solution]

As page favourites are representet as labels internally, you need to add a personal label like this:

Label favouriteLabel = new Label(LabelManager.FAVOURITE_LABEL, Namespace.PERSONAL, user);
labelManager.addLabel(page, favouriteLabel);

best regards

[Vince Allen]

Thanks! This is just what I needed.

[Vince Allen]

Yes, I've seen the tutorial to create a Notifcation plug-in. That's really not what I'm trying to do. I'm using this plug-in to script interactions using Beanshell. I've had success programmatically creating new pages. Now I want to assign users as "Watchers" of those new pages. Since I'm using Beanshell, I was hoping I could find a path forward in the Java docs. Can you point me to a Class that can make a user a Watch a page?

Thanks.

[Panos]

Did you read the documentation?