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eowmob
2958e5c5e9
Improvement: Mxp entity & special character support in normal mud output (#6903)
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#### Brief overview of PR changes/additions
Mudlet was only able to display entities with only one Latin1 character
in normal mud output.
This fix removes this restriction and also enables the use of special
characters represented by MXP default entities.
#### Motivation for adding to Mudlet
Improve MXP compliance
#### Other info (issues closed, discussion etc)
The patch changes small tidbits in several places: TBuffer was not able
to add additional characters to an input line, also the inserted entity
content must be reparsed to see if an MXP element is contained or to
interprete any non-Latin1 encoding while not risking a deadlock by
trying to resolve a recursive entity definition. This also required a
way for the entity resolver if a given entity is custom, default, or
unknown.

There are some screenshots and remarks at the end of
https://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23206&start=10 .

Also, you can see how this works by connection to aldebaran-mud.de login
as a guest char (hit y to confirm) then "set mxp test 5", "set mxp test
6" or, for insights: "set mxp test 5 source", "set mxp test 6 source"
2024-08-31 15:33:24 +02:00
Gustavo Sousa
102491a743
Refactoring/reimplementation of MXP support (#3625)
Refactoring/reimplementation of MXP protocol
        Extracts MXP support from TBuffer
        Separates input parsing from protocol processing: input is parsed into MxpTag objects by the MxpNodeBuilder and are passed to be handled by the MxpTagProcessor
        Class hierarchy of MxpTagHandler for implementing support for each tag: allows for a clear separation of the implementation of each tag and makes it easier for adding support for new tags
        Defines a clear interface (MxpClient) separating the MXP implementation from other parts of the code
        Solves some limitations of previous implementation such as supporting element definitions not only for<SEND> tags, interpolating named and positional attributes and interpolating &text; placeholder by tag content
        Includes support for COLOR tag
        Handles FONT, U, I, B, VAR and !ENTITY tags, but so far no defined behavior (can be implemented in MxpMudlet)
        Attributes that hold MXP state are now in the Host class to avoid needless copies when TBuffer is copied around
        Introduces QtTests for some of the classes
    Other refactorings intended to simplify TBuffer class, extracting responbilities that aren't directly related to the buffer mgmt
        Extracted TEncodingTable from TBuffer, this class is responsible for mapping encoding names to tables. It also removes some bloat from TBuffer.
        TLinkStore to manage links and associated hints to be displayed.
        TEntityResolver to map character entities, such as &gt; &#32; &#x20; to their associated string values; supports interpolating strings replacing the entity placeholders by their values
2020-05-03 19:09:42 +02:00