JarCastingConfluence Pages Maven Plugin
Compose Confluence wiki pages as a Maven project.
- Compose page content using Markdown syntax.
- Create diagrams using PlantUML.
Project Structure
Each wiki page is represented by a directory under the src directory. A wiki dir must contain exactly one Markdown file which will be the contents of the wiki page. Actual name of the file does not matter as long it ends in .md. The name of the directory will be taken as the title of the wiki page.
Diagrams written in PlantUML must have file names ending in .puml. In the Markdown file, refer to diagrams as images by replacing the file name extension with .png.
A wiki dir may have subdirectories. These are wiki dirs themselves and are rendered as child pages in Confluence.
For example:
wiki-project/
├── pom.xml
└── src/
└── Main/
├── Main.md
├── diagram1.puml
└── More Details/
└── details.md
Will upload a page titled Main with a child page with title More Details. Inside Main.md, the diagram is referenced as:
![Diagram][diagram1.png]
Confluence Credentials
The plugin requires your Confluence credentials to access the Confluence REST API. Add a server section to your Maven settings file (~/.m2/settings.xml):
<server>
<id>my-confluence</id>
<username>me</username>
<password>{PCtnibAGfiQHDyPPaKbgPaxqb/FCHDMJrnUrdgCYfKw=}</password>
</server>
You may use Maven Password Encryption.
Project Configuration
In pom.xml you should have, at least.
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>wiki-project</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>cpages</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>ph.samson.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>cpages-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.3.0</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Setting <extensions>true</extensions> for the plugin gives us the cpages packaging type which we use for the project. Configuration may be provided as properties in the POM.
<properties>
<confluence.serverId>my-confluence</confluence.serverId>
<confluence.endpoint>https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/</confluence.endpoint>
<confluence.spaceKey>My Space</confluence.spaceKey>
<confluence.parentTitle>The Parent</confluence.parentTitle>
<confluence.scmUrl>https://foohub.com/me/wiki-project</confluence.scmUrl>
</properties>
The properties are as follows.
confluence.serverId- Server ID from your maven settings.confluence.endpoint- Confluence REST API endpoint.confluence.spaceKey- Wiki space to place pages under.confluence.parentTitle- Title of existing page to serve as parent. If not provided, pages will be placed at the top level of the wiki space.confluence.scmUrl- If provided, a link will be added to the foot of each page to point the reader to the source project.
Using
mvn site will render to HTML locally so you can preview the result. This starts a LiveReload server so you can continue editing your text and diagrams and get an automatically updated view on your browser.
mvn deploy will render and upload the pages to your Confluence wiki. New pages and attachments will be created, existing ones get updated.
Why?
I prefer writing in plain text formats and being able to use Git for version control.