575724 - [k][questions] Feeds contain markup instead of HTML

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Questions, task, P2)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Screenshot of "#" chars appearing in the excerpted feed body

For feeds of forum posts with Wiki markup, such as:

# one
# two
etc., which are turned into:

1. one
2. two

we show the # chars in the feed.

We need a design decision here as to which to display (raw vs. pretty-print)

Comment 1

[Chris Howse [:chowse]]

Is the description pure text? If so, pick the first one of these that seems implementable in reasonable time:

1. Translate (the most common) wiki markup into its closest plaintext equivalent.
   In the case above, replace each "#" with "1.", "2.", etc. (w/o a line break).

2. Strip the wiki markup. The description presumably removes lines and paras,
   so the description should be readable w/o the associated markup.

3. Leave it as is. Someone following the RSS feed probably has a solid enough
   understanding to recognize and interpret the raw markup.

Comment 2

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

(2) is the first one that's implementable in a reasonable amount of time: use content_parsed and strip_tags. (1) is a rabbit hole that ends with building a new, worse wiki parser.

Comment 3

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Possibly dumb question: couldn't the actual mediawiki->html parser be used to generate the html, rather than choosing between plain text or raw markup?

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Yes, that's really the choice (except for titles) I think we got a little side tracked. How about: HTML for item content, stripped plain text for item title?

Comment 5

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Sounds like the best solution!

Comment 6

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

http://github.com/jsocol/kitsune/commit/1b0b6ad553b8b521cb7ff242b343d6b380d47aa3

Comment 7

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Note that this applies to both the feed of questions and the per-question feed of answers, so good URLs to test:

https://support-stage.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/8/feed
https://support-stage.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/feed

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED; there's a spinoff, bug 582743.