DokuWiki XMLRPC with Java

rjahn — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:23:26 +0000

is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database.

It's a really nice software for your documentation. The default theme isn't super modern, but it works. There are many custom themes available and styling is simple.

The really cool thing is the remote API of DokuWiki. It has a XML based RPC interface. Here are some details.

The documentation looks promise. There's a Java example
But the last update of the Java client was 2016

After downloading and testing the client, it was clear that it doesn't work. It had a problem with cookie management. I tried to fix the problem in the base lib - aXMLRPC but it was tricky. The problem was the standard Http URL connection. After replacing it with Apache HttpClient, the dokujclient was working without problems.
I didn't try to find the root cause of the problem because it wasn't worth the time. It was faster to replace the communication part.

Here's a link to our patch and all required libraries (pre-built).

Here's a short snippet

DokuJClient client =new DokuJClient(url);

client.login(username, password);
client.putPage(pNamespace + ":" + pPageName, sText);
FileSearch fs = new FileSearch();

fs.search(dirImages, true);
for (String file : fs.getFoundFiles())

{

    client.putAttachment(pNamespace + ":" + pPageName + ":" + FileUtil.getName(file), 

                         file, true);

}
client.logoff();

We use the remote interface for automatic article updates. It works great!

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DokuWiki XMLRPC with Java