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Make iOS pasting accept wider range of UTIs #124

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48 changes: 35 additions & 13 deletions ios/editorTextView/EditorTextView.mm
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Expand Up @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ - (void)copy:(id)sender {

UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
[pasteboard setItems:@[@{
UTTypePlainText.identifier : plainText,
UTTypeUTF8PlainText.identifier : plainText,
UTTypeHTML.identifier : escapedHtml,
UTTypeRTF.identifier : rtfData
}]];
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -58,21 +58,41 @@ - (void)paste:(id)sender {
: [typedEditor->parser insertFromHtml:initiallyProcessedHtml location:currentRange.location];
} else {
// fall back to plain text, otherwise do nothing
if([pasteboardTypes containsObject:UTTypePlainText.identifier]) {
NSString *plainString = [pasteboard valueForPasteboardType:UTTypePlainText.identifier];
currentRange.length > 0
? [TextInsertionUtils replaceText:plainString inView:typedEditor->textView at:currentRange additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:typedEditor]
: [TextInsertionUtils insertText:plainString inView:typedEditor->textView at:currentRange.location additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:typedEditor];
}
[self tryHandlingPlainTextItemsIn:pasteboard range:currentRange editor:typedEditor];
}
} else if([pasteboardTypes containsObject:UTTypePlainText.identifier]) {
// just plain text
} else {
[self tryHandlingPlainTextItemsIn:pasteboard range:currentRange editor:typedEditor];
}

[typedEditor anyTextMayHaveBeenModified];
}

- (void)tryHandlingPlainTextItemsIn:(UIPasteboard *)pasteboard range:(NSRange)range editor:(ReactNativeRichTextEditorView *)editor {
NSArray *existingTypes = pasteboard.pasteboardTypes;
NSArray *handledTypes = @[UTTypeUTF8PlainText.identifier, UTTypePlainText.identifier];
NSString *plainText;

for(NSString *type in handledTypes) {
if(![existingTypes containsObject:type]) {
continue;
}

id value = [pasteboard valueForPasteboardType:type];

if([value isKindOfClass:[NSData class]]) {
plainText = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:value encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
} else if([value isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) {
plainText = (NSString *)value;
}
}

NSString *plainString = [pasteboard valueForPasteboardType:UTTypePlainText.identifier];
currentRange.length > 0
? [TextInsertionUtils replaceText:plainString inView:typedEditor->textView at:currentRange additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:typedEditor]
: [TextInsertionUtils insertText:plainString inView:typedEditor->textView at:currentRange.location additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:typedEditor];
if(!plainText) {
return;
}

range.length > 0
? [TextInsertionUtils replaceText:plainText inView:editor->textView at:range additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:editor]
: [TextInsertionUtils insertText:plainText inView:editor->textView at:range.location additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:editor];
}

- (void)cut:(id)sender {
Expand All @@ -81,6 +101,8 @@ - (void)cut:(id)sender {

[self copy:sender];
[TextInsertionUtils replaceText:@"" inView:typedEditor->textView at:typedEditor->textView.selectedRange additionalAttributes:nullptr editor:typedEditor];

[typedEditor anyTextMayHaveBeenModified];
}

@end
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