Problem Definition

The SOAP API (XML/RPC) had a minor revision element that could be set to true in order to disable notify watcher. There is no equivalent in the REST API, so any mass updates performed using the REST API will spam Confluence users.

Suggested Solution

3 possibly solutions:

• Add an argument that can be used in the REST request to disable Notify Watchers
• Set the default behavior when using REST to disable Notify Watchers
• Add a setting in the Confluence administration panel to either enable or disable Notify Watchers when using Remote APIs

Workaround

Comment from development:

Suppressing notifications upon updating a content via REST is already supported. You currently have to supply a version with an incremented number in the request payload. Add the "minorEdit" field to the

The version payload also supports minor edits and comments as follow

"version" : {
  "number"    : incrementedFromPrevious,
  "minorEdit" : true,
  "message"   : "some version comment to keep on the content history"
}