Is there a way to render indirect sources as confluence pages?

[Simon Hardy-Francis]

I'm dreaming about something like this embedded on a page: {render:http://example.com/myurl/somefile.txt}

The idea is that I have some source file accessible via http which contains confluence markup. It might be in github and part of some source code, or it might be a dynamically generated report from some non-confluence automation. Either way I'd like confluence to read the url and use the markup read to replace the {render:http://example.com/myurl/somefile.txt} macro.

Does such a macro already exist?

[David Peterson]

I'm not aware of anything either, although it would be a handy plugin to integrate with the Reporting plugin. You could write one which had a Supplier that would load the provided URL, and load it as text. Eg:

{report-info:url:"http://blah/blah.txt" > resource:as text|render=true}

Wouldn't be that difficult to write, although it could be considered a bit of a security risk...

[Bob Swift]

Security is handled for csv and others using Macro Security Plugin, so that can be covered. It would be pretty simple to add if only there was some spare time :).

[Bob Swift]

No, not that I am aware of. But there are similar examples, for instance the CSV Macro can get CSV data from a url. You can also use the Confluence Command Line Interface to copy external content into Confluence pages.