[SOLVED] Issue with some plugins in ACP v0.5.2

a_5mith

My youtube plugin no longer works in 0.5.2 either, seems something has been changed. No idea what mind. Pretty big gotcha. I'm almost being wedgied.

Alex

Ah you too? I thought I was getting crazy, imgbed neither works for me. Well any plugin which parse content doesn't work for me excepted Markdown Parser

a_5mith

@Alex said:

Ah you too? I thought I was getting crazy, imgbed neither works for me. Well any plugin which parse content doesn't work for me excepted Markdown Parser

Yeah, imgbed broke too.

julian

@Alex said:

Ah you too? I thought I was getting crazy, imgbed neither works for me. Well any plugin which parse content doesn't work for me excepted Markdown Parser

That's really worrisome... let's see.

Edit: @a_5mith @Alex How recent is this breakage?

Edit 2: Damn, it's Markdown.

a_5mith

Upstream or regression?

julian

@a_5mith Regression, fixing shortly

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@julian, fixed it yet?

julian

@Ted no, I had thanksgiving dinner and watched David Tennant's last episode of Doctor Who instead XD

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@julian but that's the worst episode ever...
Loved Matt Smith in the role, but he's not Tennant

julian

Kind of difficult to fix, because of the change made to Markdown... if the new "noFollow" option is turned on (which it is, by default), a link as returned by markdown would look like this:

<a rel="nofollow" href="//mysite.com">Site</a>

instead of...

<a href="//mysite.com">Site</a>

... which means all of the existing regex won't match any longer. Drat.

Both the "workaround" and the "solution" involve one crappy step: All of the affected plugins need to rewrite their regex or refactor their entire plugin.

The workaround:

All plugins need to rewrite their regex to accommodate the rel="nofollow" addition
If more changes get added to Markdown, all of the affected plugins will break again
= Bad solution

The solution:

See gh#2263

... and to round it out

The cop-out

@julian just removes the rel="nofollow" from Markdown XD ... but that's a step back.

Example 1:

[ { type: 'blockquote_start' },
  { type: 'paragraph',
    text: 'i am using marked.' },
  { type: 'blockquote_end' },
  links: {} ]

Alex

It seems to be a bit laborious to fix it

a_5mith

@julian said:

Kind of difficult to fix, because of the change made to Markdown...

Ill go through my list of plugins and update as necessary.

a_5mith

EDIT: Right, for anyone that's facing this issue, rel="nofollow" needs to be placed BEFORE the href tag. Despite the source code displaying it afterwards...

julian

@a_5mith Keep in mind you should wrap rel="nofollow" in (?: and )?, as it does not always appear (e.g. if the user has disabled the nofollow option)

a_5mith

@julian said:

@a_5mith Keep in mind you should wrap rel="nofollow" in (?: and )?, as it does not always appear (e.g. if the user has disabled the nofollow option)

I seeee. Thanks.

Alex

I will edit the plugins locally then until the plugins's authors put the modification. Thank you @julian for this quick fix. @a_5mith could you let us know when you have pushed it to npm or github please?

a_5mith

@Alex said:

I will edit the plugins locally then until the plugins's authors put the modification. Thank you @julian for this quick fix. @a_5mith could you let us know when you have pushed it to npm or github please?

Yeah sure.