Confluence policy

A Confluence policy contains the connection details that are used by a Confluence Request node when you connect to a Confluence application.

You can use a Confluence Request node in a message flow to connect IBM® App Connect Enterprise to Confluence applications and issue requests to create, retrieve, update, delete, download, or publish objects such as blog posts, pages, attachments, and comments. The Confluence policy controls, at run time, access to the Confluence application.

The Confluence policy is created when you configure a connection between a Confluence Request node and Confluence by using the Connector Discovery wizard. During the process of discovery, account credentials are stored in the vault and connection details are stored in a Confluence policy. The policy is created with a type of Confluence, and the name of the policy is returned to the Confluence Request node and specified in the Connection tab of the node, in the format {policyProjectName}:policyName.

You can also create, update, or delete a Confluence policy by using the Manage Discovery Connector Policies and Credentials wizard, which you can access by right-clicking the policy project in the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and then clicking New > Discovery Connector policies and credentials.

You must deploy this policy before message flows that use the policy are started. If you redeploy a Confluence policy, all message flows that are using the policy are stopped and restarted.

For more information about using Confluence, see Using Confluence with IBM App Connect Enterprise.

Table 1. Properties of the Confluence policy
Property	Property name in .policyxml file	Description of properties
Confluence Application Type	applicationType	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `online`.
Confluence Application Version	applicationVersion	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `v1`.
Confluence Authentication method	authenticationMethod	This property specifies the type of authentication that is used for the connection between IBM App Connect Enterprise and Confluence. This value is reserved for future use and must be set to `BASIC`.
Endpoint URL	endpointUrl	This property specifies the endpoint for your Confluence account. For example, `https://ibmappcon.atlassian.net.`
Rest API URI	contextUrl	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `1.0`.
Credential name	credentialName	The specified credential can be defined during connector discovery and stored in the vault. Alternatively, you can specify an existing credential that was configured by using the mqsicredentials command or the server.conf.yaml file, or loaded through an external credential provider.
Proxy name	proxyId	This property specifies the name of the HTTP Proxy policy that contains details of the HTTP Proxy server URL and the HTTPProxy credential used to make the connection.