riot-web/src/Markdown.js

/*
Copyright 2016 OpenMarket Ltd

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/

import commonmark from 'commonmark';

/**
 * Class that wraps marked, adding the ability to see whether
 * a given message actually uses any markdown syntax or whether
 * it's plain text.
 */
export default class Markdown {
    constructor(input) {
        this.input = input;
        this.parser = new commonmark.Parser();
        this.renderer = new commonmark.HtmlRenderer({safe: false});
    }

    isPlainText() {
        // we determine if the message requires markdown by
        // running the parser on the tokens with a dummy
        // rendered and seeing if any of the renderer's
        // functions are called other than those noted below.
        // In case you were wondering, no we can't just examine
        // the tokens because the tokens we have are only the
        // output of the *first* tokenizer: any line-based
        // markdown is processed by marked within Parser by
        // the 'inline lexer'...
        let is_plain = true;

        function setNotPlain() {
            is_plain = false;
        }

        const dummy_renderer = new commonmark.HtmlRenderer();
        for (const k of Object.keys(commonmark.HtmlRenderer.prototype)) {
            dummy_renderer[k] = setNotPlain;
        }
        // text and paragraph are just text
        dummy_renderer.text = function(t) { return t; };
        dummy_renderer.softbreak = function(t) { return t; };
        dummy_renderer.paragraph = function(t) { return t; };

        const dummy_parser = new commonmark.Parser();
        dummy_renderer.render(dummy_parser.parse(this.input));

        return is_plain;
    }

    toHTML() {
        const real_paragraph = this.renderer.paragraph;

        this.renderer.paragraph = function(node, entering) {
            // If there is only one top level node, just return the
            // bare text: it's a single line of text and so should be
            // 'inline', rather than unnecessarily wrapped in its own
            // p tag. If, however, we have multiple nodes, each gets
            // its own p tag to keep them as separate paragraphs.
            var par = node;
            while (par.parent) {
                par = par.parent;
            }
            if (par.firstChild != par.lastChild) {
                real_paragraph.call(this, node, entering);
            }
        };

        var parsed = this.parser.parse(this.input);
        var rendered = this.renderer.render(parsed);

        this.renderer.paragraph = real_paragraph;

        return rendered;
    }

    toPlaintext() {
        const real_paragraph = this.renderer.paragraph;

        // The default `out` function only sends the input through an XML
        // escaping function, which causes messages to be entity encoded,
        // which we don't want in this case.
        this.renderer.out = function(s) {
            // The `lit` function adds a string literal to the output buffer.
            this.lit(s);
        };

        this.renderer.paragraph = function(node, entering) {
            // If there is only one top level node, just return the
            // bare text: it's a single line of text and so should be
            // 'inline', rather than unnecessarily wrapped in its own
            // p tag. If, however, we have multiple nodes, each gets
            // its own p tag to keep them as separate paragraphs.
            var par = node;
            while (par.parent) {
                node = par;
                par = par.parent;
            }
            if (node != par.lastChild) {
                if (!entering) {
                    this.lit('\n\n');
                }
            }
        };

        var parsed = this.parser.parse(this.input);
        var rendered = this.renderer.render(parsed);

        this.renderer.paragraph = real_paragraph;

        return rendered;
    }
}