500 Error when adding web link to Confluence page content via API

[Angelo Loria]

I'm attempting to update a Confluence page via API using curl as part of a Jenkins pipeline (groovy code.)

My curl data looks like this (ignore the indentation):

  --data \'{ 
\"version\": { \"number\": 12 }, 
\"title\": \"PageTitle\", 
\"type\": \"page\", 
\"body\": { 
    \"storage\": { 
    \"value\": \"URL: <a href=\"https://testUrl.net/wiki/\">https://testUrl.net/wiki/</a></p>\",
    \"representation\": \"storage\" 
        } 
    } 
}\'

 The error I'm getting is this:

{"statusCode":500,"message":"org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('h' (code 104)): was expecting comma to separate OBJECT entries\n at [Source: com.atlassian.plugins.rest.common.limitrequest.jersey.LimitingRequestFilter$1@700a4af8; line: 9, column: 184]"}

I've tried every combination of double and single quotes around that string that I can think of.  

[Ian Ragudo]

In your JSON payload, since you're using single quotes, you can remove the backslash to escape double quotes (aside from the one inside storage value) like

--data '{ 
"version": { "number": 12 }, 
"title": "PageTitle", 
"type": "page", 
"body": { 
    "storage": { 
    "value": "URL: <p><a href=\"https://testUrl.net/wiki/\">https://testUrl.net/wiki/</a></p>",
    "representation": "storage" 
        } 
    } 
}'

I also added <p> in the body since you have a trailing </p>.

Hope this helps.

Ian