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@Mati365 Mati365 commented Dec 27, 2024

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Feature (clipboard): It's now possible to attach custom HTML serialize functions to clipboard pipeline, just before processing it into view fragment. Closes #17309
Internal (paste-from-office): Use inputHtmlNormalization clipboard event to handle HTML normalization.


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The ClipboardPipeline is performing some HTML normalization (on string) just before converting it to the view document fragment:

if ( dataTransfer.getData( 'text/html' ) ) {
contentData = normalizeClipboardHtml( dataTransfer.getData( 'text/html' ) );
} else if ( dataTransfer.getData( 'text/plain' ) ) {
contentData = plainTextToHtml( dataTransfer.getData( 'text/plain' ) );
}

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⚠️ I'm not pretty sure if this flag is still needed: 79555ac#diff-4b980c1afbffe5148af9316676ffda4ac77a98664dc69fcf7c07ba7726d3c42cR47. It's not fully documented so I kept it in evt.return property.

@Mati365 Mati365 requested review from arkflpc and niegowski December 27, 2024 11:54
Comment on lines +227 to +236
const htmlOrView = this.fire<ClipboardInputHTMLNormalizationEvent>( 'inputHtmlNormalization', {
html: dataTransfer.getData( 'text/html' ),
dataTransfer,
method: data.method
} ) || '';

if ( typeof htmlOrView === 'string' ) {
content = this.editor.data.htmlProcessor.toView( htmlOrView );
} else {
content = htmlOrView;
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The ClipboardPipeline is a linear sequence of events (as described at the top of this file). This change would make it inconsistent as it would be a side quest. I suggest extracting the clipboardInput firing code from the ClipboardObserver to the corresponding pipelines (clipboard pipeline and dragdrop). Then the normalization could be implemented in the listener for the paste (and drop) event listener and the sequence of events would not be broken. Especially that copy and cut are implemented locally in the pipeline, not in the observer.

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The ClipboardPipeline and PasteFromOffice should allow for common HTML string normalisation before conversion to view

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