Name
global.Differ
Description
Generates a diff in the form of HTML from two strings
Script
var Differ = Class.create();
Differ.prototype = {
/*****************************************
* Given two text strings return a table representing the diff of those two strings
* name is the field name that represents those strings.
* (optional) change is whether or not to return a result if text strings are equal
*****************************************/
diff: function(text1, text2, name, change){
if (change == null)
change = false;
text1 = this._replaceSpaces(text1);
text2 = this._replaceSpaces(text2);
var difflib = new DiffLib();
var base = difflib.stringAsLines(text1);
var newText = difflib.stringAsLines(text2);
var sm = new difflib.SequenceMatcher(base, newText);
var opcodes = sm.get_opcodes();
if (!change && (opcodes.length == 0 || (opcodes.length <= 1 && opcodes[0][0] == "equal")))
return "";
var diffview = new DiffView();
var view = diffview.buildView({
baseTextLines: base,
newTextLines: newText,
opcodes: opcodes,
baseTextName: "Base System",
newTextName: "Customized",
contextSize: null,
viewType: 0,
element: name
});
return GlideXMLUtil.toString(view);
},
getOpcodes: function(text1, text2){
var text1 = this._replaceSpaces(text1);
var text2 = this._replaceSpaces(text2);
var difflib = new DiffLib();
var base = difflib.stringAsLines(text2);
var newText = difflib.stringAsLines(text1);
var sm = new difflib.SequenceMatcher(base, newText);
return sm.get_opcodes() + "";
},
_getRoot: function(xmlstring){
var xml = GlideXMLUtil.parse(xmlstring);
var root = xml.getFirstChild();
if (root.getTagName() == "record_update")
root = root.getFirstChild();
return root;
},
/*
* When Diffing an XML String add a line that describes the action.
*/
_getActionCompare: function(element1, element2) {
if (JSUtil.nil(element1.getAttribute("action") + "")){
element1 = element1.getFirstChild();
element2 = element2.getFirstChild();
}
var action1 = element1.getAttribute("action");
var action2 = element2.getAttribute("action");
if (!JSUtil.nil(action1) && !JSUtil.nil(action2))
return this.diff(action1 + "",action2 + "", "action", false) + "";
return "";
},
_noInfo: function(){
return null;
},
/******************************************
* html removes spaces so this function replaces the spaces at the begining
* of each line with special space. Can't replace all spaces because this will mess up wrapping.
******************************************/
_replaceSpaces: function(text){
var lines = text.split("\n");
text = "";
for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
var spaces = "";
var characters = "";
for (var j = 0; j < lines[i].length; j++) {
if (lines[i][j] == " ") {
//uses special space character no visible in browser
spaces += " ";
}
else {
characters = lines[i].substring(j, lines[i].length);
break;
}
}
text += spaces + characters + "\n";
}
return text.substring(0, text.length - 1);
}
}
Sys ID
871fb6060a0a0bb000fc0c937940583d