All the configuration values can be read from environment variables using the
syntax "${ENV_VAR_NAME}".
This is useful, for example, when running in a Docker container.
EXAMPLE:
"port": "${PORT}"
"minify": "${MINIFY}"
"skinName": "${SKIN_NAME}"
Would read the configuration values for those items from the environment
variables PORT, MINIFY and SKIN_NAME.
REMARKS:
Please note that a variable substitution always needs to be quoted.
"port": 9001, <-- Literal values. When not using substitution,
"minify": false only strings must be quoted: booleans and
"skin": "colibris" numbers must not.
"port": ${PORT} <-- ERROR: this is not valid json
"minify": ${MINIFY}
"skin": ${SKIN_NAME}
"port": "${PORT}" <-- CORRECT: if you want to use a variable
"minify": "${MINIFY}" substitution, put quotes around its name,
"skin": "${SKIN_NAME}" even if the required value is a number or a
boolean.
Etherpad will take care of rewriting it to
the proper type if necessary.
Resolves#3543
Before this commit, when passed a malformed credentials.json the application
crashed with a stack dump. Now we catch the error and fail in a controlled way
(like already done for settings.json).
Example of exception we no longer throw:
MALFORMEDJSON
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token M in JSON at position 0
at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
at Object.reloadSettings (<BASEDIR>/src/node/utils/Settings.js:390:24)
at Object.<anonymous> (<BASEDIR>/src/node/utils/Settings.js:543:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)
at Module.require (module.js:579:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
NB1: needs additional review and testing - no abiword available on my test bed
NB2: in ImportHandler.js, directly delete the file, and handle the eventual
error later: checking before for existence is prone to race conditions,
and does not handle any errors anyway.
This change is only cosmetic. Its aim is do make it easier to understand the
async changes that are going to be merged later on. It was extracted from the
original work from Ray Bellis.
To verify that nothing has changed, you can run the following command on each
file touched by this commit:
npm install uglify-es
diff --unified <(uglify-js --beautify bracketize <BEFORE.js>) <(uglify-js --beautify bracketize <AFTER.js>)
This is a complete script that does the same automatically (works from a
mercurial clone):
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu
REVISION=<THIS_REVISION>
PARENT_REV=$(hg identify --rev "${REVISION}" --template '{p1rev}')
FILE_LIST=$(hg status --no-status --change ${REVISION})
UGLIFYJS="node_modules/uglify-es/bin/uglifyjs"
for FILE_NAME in ${FILE_LIST[@]}; do
echo "Checking ${FILE_NAME}"
diff --unified \
<("${UGLIFYJS}" --beautify bracketize <(hg cat --rev "${PARENT_REV}" "${FILE_NAME}")) \
<("${UGLIFYJS}" --beautify bracketize <(hg cat --rev "${REVISION}" "${FILE_NAME}"))
done
```
This is documented to be more performant.
The substitution was made on frontend code, too (i.e., the one in /static),
because Date.now() is supported since IE 9, and we are life supporting only
IE 11.
Commands:
find . -name *.js | xargs sed --in-place "s/new Date().getTime()/Date.now()/g"
find . -name *.js | xargs sed --in-place "s/(new Date()).getTime()/Date.now()/g"
Not done on jQuery.
A Windows manual install has the same directory layout of a normal Unix one
(e.g. the nice symlink node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite -> ../src).
Only when running from the pre-built Windows package the directory layout is
different (e.g. src is physically copied into node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite).
The previous version of the code wrongly assumed that all Windows installs would
be run from the pre-built pakage.
In this version the path search is the same on all platform. If it fails, and we
are on Windows, there is a fallback for the specific case of the pre-built
package.
Fixes#3550
It's just synctactic sugar, but it is always better than executing string
concatenations in one's mind.
Do not do this with files in src/static, because we want to keep IE 11
compatibility.
skinName must be a single string (no directory separators in it) pointing to an
existing directory under /src/static/skins.
In case these conditions are not met, its value is rewritten to "no-skin".
Also, the value of skinName if sent to the client via clientVars for allowing
its use it in the browser.
If you edit `src/templates/export_html.html` to remove the
`<meta name="changedby" content="Etherpad">` tag[1], PDF export with
soffice has a bug: the first word of the pad is deleted and a blank page
is inserted as first page (the pad's text begins on the second page).
The `--writer` soffice option avoids that bug.
[1] you may want to delete that tag since it is inserted as a comment in
.doc or .odt soffice export.
This should look to consistent locations when looking for relative paths,
without depending on current working directory.
For absolute paths, nothing changes.
This is just a function (with an ugly side effect for caching purposes) that
heuristically tries to compute the Etherpad installation path when running under
Unix and win32 (they have different file system layouts).
This path can be used by Etherpad as a base for all the relative paths, in order
to be deterministic and not depending on cwd.
This is the location that is choosen by default when Etherpad starts with no
settings.json file.
It was different than the one contained into setting.json.template.
The hostname:port of URIs used in Minify are currently bogus and refer
to localhost only for historical reasons; there's no reason to retain
them and omitting them avoids generating an invalid URI when "port" is
not an integer.
Context: settings.port is passed to express's listen; if not numeric, it
is used a filename for a Unix domain socket.
This allows e.g. starting a server to be reverse-proxied on a multi-user
system, using the filesystem to handle access control and avoiding need
to allocate port numbers.
Before this change, etherpad-lite starts without error when configured
to listen on a Unix domain socket in this manner. However, `pad.js` and
`ace2_common.js` are generated incorrecting, causing an error
"Uncaught Error: The module at "ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/rjquery" does not exist."
when loading the editor:
When settings.port is a non-numeric string, e.g. `etherpad.sock`, a URI
of the form `http://localhost:etherpad.sock/static/js/rjquery.js` is
generated and parsed to find the file needed. In this case, the file
searched for is `:etherpad.sock/static/js/rjquery.js`, rather than the
expected `static/js/rjquery.js`. No such file exists, and the required
code is silently omitted from the bundle.
As a workaround, hard-code a (meaningless) hostname which can be parsed
correctly, since the current code makes no use of it anyway.
Etherpad 1.6.6 does not run on node <= 5 already.
Node 6.9 is the first LTS release in the 6 series, and comes with npm 3.10.8.
Declarations in package.json are advisory unless the user has set
`engine-strict` config flag.
Updated the docs accordingly.
When using LibreOffice to convert pads to doc, we got `Error: no export filter for /tmp/xxxx.doc` (tested with LO 5 and 6). Maybe it's a regression from LO. Anyway, converting HTML to odt, then to doc works.
Thx to lpagliari for her review!
* Add scroll when it edits a line out of viewport
By default, when there is an edition of a line, which is out of the
viewport, Etherpad scrolls the minimum necessary to make this line
visible. This makes that the line stays either on the top or the bottom
of the viewport. With this commit, we add a setting to make possible to
scroll to a position x% pixels from the viewport. Besides of that, we
add a setting to make an animation of this scroll.
If nothing is changed on settings.json the Etherpad default behavior is
kept
On some erros that display a modal with "Force reconnect" button, allow
Etherpad to automatically reload pad after a few seconds. Amount of
seconds is defined on settings.json.
Still need to create tests for this feature, and implement i18n.
This meant plumbing a callback through to `compressCSS()`, which meant that
I had to alter the innards of `getFileCompressed()`. I tried to leave that
function looking more understandable than when I found it; for example, I
flattened out the nested `if`.
I went ahead and upgraded the version of `clean-css` while I was in the
territory.
The semantics of all the substitutions are identical to what they were before.
I _did_ take the liberty of formatting the CSS to be a bit more readable
(at the cost of adding a little bit of whitespace).
The new hook does the same as exportHtmlAdditionalTags, but is declared
in another hook to avoid confusion about how to export tags when they
are stored as ['tag', 'value'] on attribute pool.
This complements #2762, as per @Gared suggestions.
Currently pressing ENTER on a line that ends with ':', '[', '(' or '{'
automaticaly indents the new line with 4 spaces. The variable added by
this commit to settings.json allow an Etherpad instance to not have this
behavior.
