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Improve Text Handling

James Graham requested to merge work/nvrwhere/text_handling into master

Improve the handling of text both when sending and receiving.

The main feature is to fix the linked bug (and a host of others that are unreported but similar) which is caused by the fact that we don't properly clean html. This mr does that as per the matrix spec https://spec.matrix.org/v1.5/client-server-api/#mroommessage-msgtypes. So any disallowed tags or attributes are removed and it does the special handling for certain attributes.

Additionally the functions are also designed to cover any other text formatting required, particularly fro received strings.

The receive side is covered by 2 functions handleRecieveRichText and handleRecievePlainText. The rich/plain in the function name refers to the output type not the input type (both can take plain and rich input), so handleRecieveRichText is called to get a string suitable to go in a rich text control and handleRecievePlainText for a plain control.

The functions also handle the following some of which was previously handled by eventToString in NeoChatRoom:

  • Strip and reply from the string
  • Format any user mentions
  • Linkify links in plain strings
  • Handle mxc urls in rich text (uses the new room->makeMediaUrl functionality from libQuotient)
  • handleRecievePlainText also deals with markup making NeoChatRoom->subtitle redundant

There is also an extensive test suite which defines the behaviour and the best way to review this is probably to look at the tests and decide whether you agree with the expected output given the inputs and/or if there is any missing behaviour.

The final aim especially with the test suite is to give us a framework to make further updates in the future easier and hopefully prevent a new feature breaking old behaviour with the tests.

BUG: 463932
BUG: 466330
BUG: 466930

Edited by James Graham

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