How to represent data to server for Mentions Edit Text

[williamtan37]

Hello,

I've seen some post regarding:

user text with mentions : "I want to thanks to @john and to @jane "

server text: "I want to thanks to [John, id:45] and to [Jane, id:156]"

Is this the right way to represent the data to server? Because then we wont be able to use "[". How is every doing this? So that we can also read the data back again and display it to the client in the correct format.

[nhibner]

Hi, this library doesn't take an opinionated stance on how the app represents rich text. There are multiple ways to do so with different trade-offs. For example:

Option 1: Use specialized characters to markup text inside a string:

{
    text: "<b>Hello</b> world. This is <member id="123">John</member> speaking"
}

Option 2: Represent it in your data structure:

{
  text: "Hello world. This is John speaking",
  attributes: [
    {
      type: "BOLD",
      start: 0,
      count: 5
    },
    {
      type: "MEMBER",
      start: 21
      count: 4
      id: "123"
    }
  ]
}

This library is designed to simplify allowing users to annotate rich text (e.g. inserting mentions) but requires the app to handle persisting those annotations in a format suitable for the app.

Please see similar issues that I've answered in the past for more info (e.g. https://github.com/linkedin/Spyglass/issues/35#issuecomment-269735466).

[rishiraj88]

Thanks