Action

Markdown-2-Jira

Posted by Richard Steinbrueck, Last update about 3 years ago

Convert document content to Jira „Markdown“.
Credits to https://github.com/paoloantinori/markdown_to_jira

Steps

  • script

    	/**
    	 * Takes Markdown and converts it to Jira formatted text
    	 *
    	 * @param {string} input
    	 * @returns {string}
    	 */
    	function toJ(input) {
    		// remove sections that shouldn't be recursively processed
    		var START = 'J2MBLOCKPLACEHOLDER';
    		var replacementsList = [];
    		var counter = 0;
    		
    		input = input.replace(/`{3,}(\w+)?((?:\n|.)+?)`{3,}/g, function(match, synt, content) {
    		    var code = '{code';
    		
    		    if (synt) {
    		        code += ':' + synt;
    		    }
    		
    		    code += '}' + content + '{code}';
    		    var key = START + counter++ + '%%';
    		    replacementsList.push({key: key, value: code});
    		    return key;
    		});
    		
    		input = input.replace(/`([^`]+)`/g, function(match, content) {
    		    var code = '{{'+ content + '}}';
    		    var key = START + counter++ + '%%';
    		    replacementsList.push({key: key, value: code});
    		    return key;
    		});
    
    		input = input.replace(/`([^`]+)`/g, '{{$1}}');
    
    		input = input.replace(/^(.*?)\n([=-])+$/gm, function (match,content,level) {
    			return 'h' + (level[0] === '=' ? 1 : 2) + '. ' + content;
    		});
    
    		input = input.replace(/^([#]+)(.*?)$/gm, function (match,level,content) {
    			return 'h' + level.length + '.' + content;
    		});
    
    		input = input.replace(/([*_]+)(.*?)\1/g, function (match,wrapper,content) {
    			var to = (wrapper.length === 1) ? '_' : '*';
    			return to + content + to;
    		});
    		// Make multi-level bulleted lists work
      		input = input.replace(/^(\s*)- (.*)$/gm, function (match,level,content) {
        			var len = 2;
        			if(level.length > 0) {
            			len = parseInt(level.length/4.0) + 2;
        			}
        			return Array(len).join("-") + ' ' + content;
      		});
    
    		var map = {
    			cite: '??',
    			del: '-',
    			ins: '+',
    			sup: '^',
    			sub: '~'
    		};
    
    		input = input.replace(new RegExp('<(' + Object.keys(map).join('|') + ')>(.*?)<\/\\1>', 'g'), function (match,from,content) {
    			//console.log(from);
    			var to = map[from];
    			return to + content + to;
    		});
    
    		input = input.replace(/~~(.*?)~~/g, '-$1-');
    
    		input = input.replace(/\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)/g, '[$1|$2]');
    		input = input.replace(/<([^>]+)>/g, '[$1]');
    
    		// restore extracted sections
    		for(var i =0; i < replacementsList.length; i++){
    		    var sub = replacementsList[i];
    		    input = input.replace(sub["key"], sub["value"]);
    		}
    
    		// Convert header rows of tables by splitting input on lines
    		lines = input.split(/\r?\n/gm);
    		lines_to_remove = []
    		for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
    			line_content = lines[i];
    
    			if (line_content.match(/\|---/g) != null) {
    				lines[i-1] = lines[i-1].replace(/\|/g, "||")
    				lines.splice(i, 1)
    			}
    		}
    
    		// Join the split lines back
    		input = ""
    		for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
    			input += lines[i] + "\n"
    		}
    		return input;
    	};
    
    draft.content = toJ(draft.content);
    

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