1. Thanks for the pointer. That should be just fine .
2. That would be a nice capability, but, I don't think it is a replacement for the equivalent of SOAP default rendering.

Hi bswift,

/rest/api/content/{id}?expand=body.view 

Will fetch the content with the html body rendered without requiring data to be sent to the server

There is currently no way to render the content with the styles inline as per the SOAP API, we're investigating it currently, but would prefer to do https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CRA-256

Another thing that appears to be missing from the REST API is the ability to render the page when a content id is provided and no specific content is provided:

String renderContent(String token, String spaceKey, String pageId, String content) - returns the HTML rendered content for this page. The behaviour depends on which arguments are passed: If only pageId is passed then the current content of the page will be rendered.

This is the most efficient option, otherwise the data has to be retrieved from the server and then sent back even. The server already has the content id and doesn't need the data.

Yes, I can confirm this works very similar to the SOAP equivalent when the style = "clean" option is specified. Is there no longer an option to render the content with the HTML preamble and stylesheet as is the default with SOAP???

Thanks for the pointer. I would not have been able to guess that would have been the way to specify it. I will try this out shortly and let you know.

"content":{"id":"1448805348"}

Hi bswift,
If I understand the issue correctly, this did get done as part of 5.5, I've updated documentation for it here : https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+REST+API+Examples#ConfluenceRESTAPIExamples-Convertstorageformattoviewusingaparticularpagefortheconversioncontext

and will get better documentation it into the javadoc of the resource so it gets generated into the REST API doc in the next confluence release.