Flow Board REST API

Owned by Ture Hoefner (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Oct 22, 2020
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Getting Started

If you have used Confluence Server REST APIs before then you are well on your way to using the Flow Board REST APIs. For those who have not used Confluence REST APIs, or for those who want a refresher, these resources will get you started:

Confluence REST API Documentation
Confluence Server REST API Examples

We like to use curl to exercise REST APIs from the command line. There are also many REST client GUI tools that may be easier than the command line for some scenarios. Insomnia is an example of one that we like.

When you think you are ready to try a Flow Board REST API invocation you can start with a simple Confluence REST API invocation to verify the plumbing is hooked up correctly. This will invoke a GET request to browse the content of your site:

curl --user <my username>:<my password> <http://<my> Base URL>/rest/api/content

base URL is something like: localhost:1990/confluence
username is something like: admin

When you start testing you usage of the Flow Board REST APIs and you are viewing the board in a browser to verify results remember to refresh the page after you operate on an object using the API from curl or your REST client tool. The refresh could be necessary to reload the JSON for the object you have modified.

Flow Board REST APIs

There is no REST API to create a Board. A create API may be included as part of the work for Flow Board import/copy operations, eg:
https://appfire.atlassian.net/browse/FB-111 "Import JSON to a single board"
https://appfire.atlassian.net/browse/FB-85 "Copy board"
Feel free to add your vote or comments to any of our Jira items for Flow Board (How to Vote on Jira Issuesarchived

Security

The REST APIs verify access is permitted to the resources being operated upon by the caller. Some APIs are admin-only and those are identified as such.

Version

Notice that there is an API version in the REST resource URLs. This is the version of the REST API, not the version of the Flow Board application. The REST API will work with any Flow Board version after 2.3.1, the version at the time this API document was created (Flow Board REST API version 1.0).

It is planned that the REST API will always be backwards compatible so that your custom solutions which use the REST API will continue to work for future versions of the API.

 

Board APIs

get Board

GET flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}

query parameters:
expand - string - comma delimited list of properties to expand
archived - boolean - default=false
download - boolean - default=false
format - string - default=json (other format support in the future like xml, xls, csv)

example:

curl --user <username>:<password> <http://<base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/1

example output:

{"id":1,"name":"FB1","title":"Flow Board 1","description":"here is a description", "pageId":917508,"created":1578614191438,"updated":1586193242938, "lists":[{"id":5,"title":"My List 1","position":0,"created":1586193350939,"updated":1586193350939,"isArchived":false,"autoDueDateClear":false,"autoDueDateOffset":0,"autoDueDateOffsetUnits":null,"autoDueDateCompletion":"none","autoUnassign":null,"autoAssign":null, "cards":[{"id":9,"title":"card 1:1","hasDescription":true,"position":0,"due":0,"completed":false,"created":1586193355063,"updated":1586193380581,"isArchived":false,"commentsCount":1, "assignees":[{"id":"ff808081660a117f01660a129c2c0000","name":"admin","fullName":"admin","avatarUrl":"/images/icons/profilepics/default.svg"}]}]}], "activities":[]}

get Boards

GET <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards

query parameters:
in - string - required: a comma delimited list of board IDs
expand - string - comma delimited list of properties to expand
archived - boolean - default=false

example:

export Boards (admin)

GET <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/admin/boards

Requires user to be admin.

query parameters:
download - boolean - default=true
format - string - default=json (other format support in the future like xml, xls, csv)

update Board (admin)

POST <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/admin/boards/{boardId}

Requires user to be admin.
Limited functionality: can only update PROPERTIES of the board (name, title, pageId, description). See APIs for lists and cards to update content of a Board

example:

delete Board (admin)

DELETE <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/admin/boards/{boardId}

Requires user to be admin.

 

List APIs

get List

GET <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/lists/{listId}

 

create List

POST <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/lists

 

update List

PUT <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/lists/{listId}

 

order Lists

PUT <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/lists/order

 

archive List

DELETE <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/lists/{listId}



get archived Lists

GET<base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}/archived-lists


query parameters:
offset - int - default=0 pagination starting index
limit - int - default=10

unarchive List

POST <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}/archived-lists/{listId}

 

delete archived List

DELETE <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}/archived-lists/{listId}

 


Card APIs

get Card

GET <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/{cardId}

create Card

POST <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards

 

update Card

PUT <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/{cardId}

 

archive Card

DELETE <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/{cardId}

 

order Cards

PUT <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/order

 

get archived Cards

GET <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}/archived-cards


query parameters:
offset - int - default=0
limit - int - default=10

unarchive Card

POST <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}/archived-cards/{cardId}

 

delete archived Card

DELETE <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/boards/{boardId}/archived-cards/{cardId}



get Card Comments

use the get Card API

create Card Comment

POST <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/comments

The body of the post contains the card ID and the comment content.

The comment content can be a plain string (legacy style) or a serialized document (type=quill or type=string). Quill is the type of comment content that is created when user enters a comment using the UI

Examples:

content as a serialized quill document, like a comment created by the UI:

content as a serialized plain text document:

content as string (legacy for support of Flow Board app version 1):

update Card Comment

PUT <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/comments

See the API for create Card Comment for syntax of the body

delete Card Comment

DELETE <base URL>/rest/flowboard/1.0/cards/comments/{commentId}

Get the comment ID with the get Card API