Merge pull request #2622 from getnikola/markdown-to-string

Allowing to compile MarkDown posts from string to string.
getnikola · Jan 8, 2017 · 80abb4a · 80abb4a
2 parents c2da98c + 9a1d901
commit 80abb4a
Showing 1 changed file with 12 additions and 5 deletions.
diff --git a/nikola/plugins/compile/markdown/__init__.py b/nikola/plugins/compile/markdown/__init__.py
@@ -63,19 +63,26 @@ def set_site(self, site):
 
         self.config_dependencies.append(str(sorted(site.config.get("MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS"))))
 
+    def compile_string(self, content, source_path=None, is_two_file=True):
+        """Compile Markdown into HTML strings."""
+        if markdown is None:
+            req_missing(['markdown'], 'build this site (compile Markdown)')
+        self.extensions += self.site.config.get("MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS")
+        if not is_two_file:
+            _, content = self.split_metadata(content)
+        output = markdown(content, self.extensions, output_format="html5")
+        output, shortcode_deps = self.site.apply_shortcodes(output, filename=source_path, with_dependencies=True, extra_context={'post': post})
+        return output, shortcode_deps
+
     def compile(self, source, dest, is_two_file=True, post=None, lang=None):
         """Compile the source file into HTML and save as dest."""
         if markdown is None:
             req_missing(['markdown'], 'build this site (compile Markdown)')
         makedirs(os.path.dirname(dest))
-        self.extensions += self.site.config.get("MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS")
         with io.open(dest, "w+", encoding="utf8") as out_file:
             with io.open(source, "r", encoding="utf8") as in_file:
                 data = in_file.read()
-            if not is_two_file:
-                _, data = self.split_metadata(data)
-            output = markdown(data, self.extensions, output_format="html5")
-            output, shortcode_deps = self.site.apply_shortcodes(output, filename=source, with_dependencies=True, extra_context=dict(post=post))
+            output, shortcode_deps = self.compile_string(data, source, is_two_file)
             out_file.write(output)
         if post is None:
             if shortcode_deps: