When adding the paste DOM event handler, embeds don't get fired

[rblalock]

When adding this to the editor:

handleDOMEvents={{
  paste: () => { ...code here... },
}}

And injecting things inside the editor based on what is in that paste function, it doesn't seem to trigger the embed functionality. I can trigger it by pasting the same code in the toolbar's version of an embed item, but it doesn't trigger if it gets placed in there manually when handling it in the DOM paste function above.

I'm unsure if this is a bug or I'm doing it wrong. If you can point me in the right direction, happy to help fix it if it's a bug ... or would be really grateful if you can point out what I'm doing wrong.

The paste handler has some of this code, to give you better context:

	const onPaste = (view: any, event: Event) => {
		// ... do stuff here where we transform certain values and wrap them
                // so we can pull them out later

		const transaction = pasteView.state.tr
			.insertText(
				linkValue, // <-- !! the specially formatted thing, this won't trigger the embed once it's added to the editor
				pasteView.state.selection.from,
				pasteView.state.selection.to
			);

                // this works fine
		if (value === PasteType.dismiss) {
			transaction.addMark(
				pasteView.state.selection.from,
				pasteView.state.selection.to + pasteValue?.length || 0,
				pasteView.state.schema.marks.link.create({ href: linkValue })
			);
		}

		pasteView.dispatch(transaction);

		// ... do other things...
	};

I see here

rich-markdown-editor/src/plugins/MarkdownPaste.ts

Line 39 in ce81079

if (embeds) {

where the embed code is called, but unsure how to programmatically call this if necessary.

[tommoor]

I think it would help if you describe exactly what you're trying to achieve with your handler. By providing your own onPaste handler you're not going through the inbuilt paste handler for embeds…

[rblalock]

Is there a way to get the editor object?

rich-markdown-editor/src/plugins/MarkdownPaste.ts

Line 39 in ce81079

if (embeds) {

We have a special syntax (kind of like a shortcode) that we programmatically drop in the editor (ref. that linkValue in the code above...it's basically something like {myspecialthing}...{/myspecialthing} and then want to match that against an embed matcher

[rblalock]

I guess we could make our own paste plugin...

[tommoor]

Yes, this is the best approach 👍 – the handlePaste method returns a boolean, if you return true then subsequent paste handlers will not be called.