I have a react application and using DraftJs.
On listing pages my ContentCard component renders DraftJs content as read-only using Editor from draft-js.
<Editor readOnly={true} editorState={contentState} />
I want to show short version of contentState as short description, max 400 characters at listing pages. And on content detail pages full contentState.
I used this truncate method but it trims only text. Here i get block and then texts. But how can i get blocks with character limit.
For example; First block contains 820 characters with all different styling words. How can i get first 400 characters with all styling information. I mean block with 400 character.
truncate = (editorState, charCount) => {
const contentState = editorState.getCurrentContent();
const blocks = contentState.getBlocksAsArray();
let index = 0;
let currentLength = 0;
let isTruncated = false;
const truncatedBlocks = [];
while (!isTruncated && blocks[index]) {
const block = blocks[index];
const length = block.getLength();
if (currentLength + length > charCount) {
isTruncated = true;
const truncatedText = block
.getText()
.slice(0, charCount - currentLength);
const state = ContentState.createFromText(`${truncatedText}...`);
truncatedBlocks.push(state.getFirstBlock());
} else {
truncatedBlocks.push(block);
}
currentLength += length + 1;
index++;
}
if (isTruncated) {
const state = ContentState.createFromBlockArray(truncatedBlocks);
return EditorState.createWithContent(state);
}
return editorState;
};
I want to show 400 characters with bold, italic styling, links and opher entities and so on.
I needed something similar, so I did a very crude implementation, but it worked for me :)
import { ContentState, convertToRaw } from 'draft-js'
const convertContentToEditorState = (content: string) => {
if (content) {
try {
return EditorState.createWithContent(
convertFromRaw(JSON.parse(content)),
)
} catch {
return EditorState.createEmpty()
}
} else {
return EditorState.createEmpty()
}
}
/**
* Takes in a stringfied JSON object, truncates it into a single ContentState and returns it.
* @param jsonContentBlocks
* @param maxCharCount
*/
const getTruncatedContentState = (
jsonContentBlocks: string,
maxCharCount: number,
): ContentState | undefined => {
const editorState = convertContentToEditorState(jsonContentBlocks)
const contentState = editorState.getCurrentContent()
const blocks = contentState.getBlocksAsArray()
let currentLength = 0
const truncatedBlocks = []
for (let i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++) {
const blockLength = blocks[i].getCharacterList().size
let truncatedText = ''
if (blockLength >= maxCharCount - currentLength) {
// We need to trim it
truncatedText = blocks[i]
.getText()
.slice(0, maxCharCount - currentLength)
currentLength += truncatedText.length
const state = ContentState.createFromText(`${truncatedText}...`)
truncatedBlocks.push(state.getFirstBlock())
break
} else if (blockLength > 0) {
truncatedText = blocks[i].getText()
currentLength += truncatedText.length
const state = ContentState.createFromText(`${truncatedText}`)
truncatedBlocks.push(state.getFirstBlock())
}
}
if (truncatedBlocks.length > 0) {
return ContentState.createFromBlockArray(truncatedBlocks)
}
return undefined
}
/**
* Truncates and gets only the text from the blocks, returns stringified JSON
* @param jsonContentBlocks
* @param maxCharCount
*/
const getTruncatedContent = (
jsonContentBlocks: string | undefined,
maxCharCount: number,
): string | undefined => {
if (!jsonContentBlocks) return undefined
const contentState = getTruncatedContentState(
jsonContentBlocks,
maxCharCount,
)
if (contentState) {
const raw = convertToRaw(contentState)
return JSON.stringify(raw)
}
return undefined
}