Preserve links on export/import

[vasylOstrovskyi]

All links are lost when exporting to html or any other format. Also, it would be great to restore them during import of saved document.
I am absulute dummy in node and js, but looking at the export code I noticed that there is some hook which enables including extra tags into exported html, so this must not be extremely complicated to do.
Regards,
Vasyl

[LeaChemoul]

I have the same problem and that's really problematic if you want to :

• export/import HTML as @vasylOstrovskyi said
• come back to another version
• copy paste links inside a pad
• copy paste links from a pad to another one
• setHtml of a pad with an external html text (in my case i want to set default pad text with some html and it contains links like : <a href="http://google.com">Google</a>)

I've created a workaround to export my links from etherpad. Maybe that's not the best way but some people may find it useful:

exports.getLineHTMLForExport = async (hookName, context) => {
    const content = $('<div>').html(context.lineContent);
    content.find('span').each(function () {
        const span = $(this);
        const url = span.data('url');
        if (!url) return; // not a url
        span.replaceWith(
            $('<a>').attr('href', `${url}`).text(span.text()));
    });
    context.lineContent = content.html();
};

I couldn't find how to preserve external links on setHtml or to copy paste it.
I would really appreciate some information @seballot, since i need it for my production environment to work.

Best regards

[seballot]

Hi @LeaChemoul, I did not write this plugin, I just took the maintenance cause I improved the UI, so sorry but I have no more information than you have...

[tiblu]

@seballot Thanks for your work so far!

Are you planning to actively maintain this project? Asking cause we're (Citizen OS - https://github.com/citizenos/) interested in a hyperlink plugin.

I THINK this plugin needs a sizeable rewrite to support toolbar configuration, exports etc. So we're thinking if we are going to create a brand new plugin or PR this project. IF you lack time to maintain, which is perfectly understandable, we would like to take ownership of the project OR create a brand new plugin just to speed up the development and release cycle.

Related to: citizenos/citizenos-fe#110

[seballot]

hi @tiblu

I can defintly give you the ownership, should I transfer it to citizenos ?

[tiblu]

Yes, citizenos would be great. Can you do the same for NPM? All the best and thanks for work!

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[seballot]

ok no prob. But you need to delete the fork on citizenos so I can transfer you the ownership

[seballot]

for npm I have invited citizenos-owner as a maintainer

[tiblu]

ok no prob. But you need to delete the fork on citizenos so I can transfer you the ownership

@seballot Fork deleted.

for npm I have invited citizenos-owner as a maintainer

Thank you!

[seballot]

still not working for citizenos, as it's an organization I needed the proper right to transfer, so I transfered it to you and you will be able to transfer again
have fun, bye !