Unable to create child page through REST API

[FLoureiro]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to create a child page through REST API, but I am always getting:

"message": "A page with this title already exists: A page already exists with the title new page2 in the space with key CM",
"reason": "Bad Request",
"statusCode": 400

This is the HTTP API POST that I am using:

curl -u admin:admin -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"type":"page","title":"new page","ancestors":[{"id":110198787}], "space":{"key":"CM"},"body":{"storage":{"value":"<p>This is a new page</p>","representation":"storage"}}}' http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/ | python -mjson.tool 

And my question what am I doint wrong?

The issue is with the id?

The id, is from the page where we want to create the child page or if I must add more fields to identify the page in question. My objective is to create a cascade of pages. For example Page C is a child of Page B, and Page B is a child of Page A who is in the root of Space 1.

Thanks in advance!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Not the id, the first line of the error message is almost certainly the problem - you already have a page with that title in that space.

[FLoureiro]

Ah ok, I didnt notice previously that I cannot have a child page with the same name of the ancestor.

I made a test with other titles and was able to create child pages.

Thanks for the help!