Bug: MarkdownRenderer.render does not add rendered links to metadataCache

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Bug: MarkdownRenderer.render does not add rendered links to metadataCache #144

Closed mayurankv closed 7 months ago

mayurankv commented 7 months ago

I'm not 100% sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour but wanted to be sure!

Steps to reproduce:

Calling MarkdownRenderer.render(plugin.app, "[[file]]", linkEl, sourcePath, plugin) does not add the rendered file to the metadataCache of the file specified by sourcePath.

lishid commented 7 months ago

MetadataCache is used to cache the parsing of the original file in the vault on disk. MarkdownRenderer.render is used to render some markdown string into a DOM element - the fact that it asks for a sourcePath is so that relative links in the markdown can be resolved properly from the correct perspective.

They are not related to one another.

mayurankv commented 7 months ago

Ah thank you for clarifying. Is there then a method to modify the metadataCache for a file?

lishid commented 7 months ago

There isn't a direct way - you need to edit the file itself to include the links.