Add option to strip Unicode from entry filenames #1135

tech4him1 · 2018-02-23T22:44:22Z

- Summary

The PR adds slug as a global config option.

The slug option allows you to change how filenames for entries are created and sanitized. For modifying the actual data in a slug, see the per-collection option below.

slug accepts multiple options:

encoding
- unicode (default): Sanitize filenames (slugs) according to RFC3987 and the WHATWG URL spec. This spec allows non-ASCII (or non-Latin) characters to exist in URLs.
- ascii: Sanitize filenames (slugs) according to RFC3986. The only allowed characters are (0-9, a-z, A-Z, _, -, ~).
clean_accents: Set to true to remove diacritics from slug characters before sanitizing. This is often helpful when using ascii encoding.

Closes #1012.
Also sanitizes media file slugs, closing #1196.

- Test plan

Added tests of functions. Manually tested all three options.

- Description for the changelog

Add option to strip Unicode from entry filenames.

- A picture of a cute animal (not mandatory but encouraged)

verythorough · 2018-02-23T23:02:17Z

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tech4him1 · 2018-02-24T00:18:27Z

website/site/content/docs/configuration-options.md

@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ public_folder: "/images/uploads"

 Based on the settings above, if a user used an image widget field called `avatar` to upload and select an image called `philosoraptor.png`, the image would be saved to the repository at `/static/images/uploads/philosoraptor.png`, and the `avatar` field for the file would be set to `/images/uploads/philosoraptor.png`.

+## Slug Type
+
+By default, filenames (slugs) for entries created in the CMS are sanitized according to RFC3987 and the WHATWG URL spec. This spec allows non-ASCII (or non-Latin) characters to exist in URLs. However, for maximum compatibility, you can also set a different slugification option:


Should I mention that RFC3987 is still technically a draft, not an "official standard"?

vencax · 2018-02-24T08:34:10Z

If it converts all accent chars to asci (not strip them out) and if it apply to filenames of media as well, I am ok with that.

tech4him1 · 2018-02-24T15:14:37Z

@vencax Yes, you would set slug_type: latin in your config, and it would do both.

talves

LGTM: Seems to work as expected. I will run some more to make sure, but nothing glaring on first run.

rdela · 2018-02-25T16:01:34Z

@tech4him1
#1135 (comment)

Options are:

iri (default): Keeps Unicode characters in slugs, according the the IRI draft spec (RFC3987) and the WHATWG URL spec. (Does anyone have a better name for this option?)

After looking through IRIs RfC 3987 and WHATWG URL Standard I would say iri works unless you think url makes more sense, looks like WHATWG uses “(The) URL Standard” everywhere, so standard might be another option, but given comment below maybe that would be confusing for now.

https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/pull/1135/files#r170398959

Should I mention that RFC3987 is still technically a draft, not an "official standard"?

Linking to IRIs RfC 3987 2.1. Summary of IRI Syntax and/or WHATWG URL Standard 4.3. URL writing and/or https://github.com/whatwg/url somewhere in a code comment or docs might be a cool move if you have not done so already (just glanced through the PR quickly).

rdela

🔗🎉

tech4him1 · 2018-02-25T16:16:42Z

@rdela Thanks for the review (I updated the docs to add links). On option naming, the other choice that I could think of would be to name it default or normal (like Jekyll's options: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/templates/#options-for-the-slugify-filter).

rdela · 2018-02-25T16:24:21Z

@tech4him1 Never a bad idea to follow Jekyll lead because of popularity, sheerly from GH pages use alone. default works best there, normal not as specific to me, and not in link:

The default is default.

That said, no other reason not to use iri, first instinct and all, plus maybe some people end up encouraged to look at the RfC and educate themselves a bit like I was.

rdela · 2018-02-25T16:28:26Z

…which is now way easier thanks to doc links

erquhart · 2018-02-26T19:10:46Z

website/site/content/docs/configuration-options.md

+
+- `iri` (default): Keeps Unicode characters in slugs, according the the IRI draft spec ([RFC3987](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987)) and the [WHATWG URL spec](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/).
+- `latin`: Removes accents/diacritics from slug, then strips out all non-valid URL characters and periods (see `ascii` below).
+- `ascii`: Strips out all characters except valid URI chars (RFC3986) or periods (0-9, a-z, A-Z, `_`, `-`, `~`).


If latin is effectively ascii + accent removal, it'd be clearer to just state that. Also, we should order these options from most to least permissive, which just mean swapping the last two.

If latin is effectively ascii + accent removal, it'd be clearer to just state that.

Agreed, can you suggest wording?

Also, we should order these options from most to least permissive, which just mean swapping the last two.

I originally ordered them in that way, but I'm not sure. You're going to end up with more chars left in latin than in a pure RFC3986 format (ascii option), since you're converting accented chars instead of just stripping them out.

since you're converting accented chars instead of just stripping them out.

Then why does it not read:

Converts accent/diacritic characters from slug to ASCII equivalents, then strips out all non-valid URL characters and periods (see `ascii` below).

?

@rdela That is what it does -- my wording needs to be cleared up there.

Maybe they are in the right order after all and latin just needs better description like example suggestion above?

Replaces accent/diacritic characters from slug with ASCII equivalents, then strips out all non-valid URL characters and periods (see `ascii` below).

it does make sense in that it is removing the diacritics and leaving the base chars intact

Oh yeah I can see that meaning now

Starting to wonder if we should do this a little different. This boils down to URI/3986 or IRI/3987, with the option to strip accents. Maybe a two-fold config approach:

slug: iri # or slug: - protocol: iri - strip_accents: true

Would stripping accents ever make sense when using IRI protocol?

@erquhart Actually, I think that's the best option. Stripping accents is really going to be independent of the format.

Cool, so most folks can just do slug: uri or slug: iri, but others can provide object if they need tighter control.

Btw I love that pattern and am expecting to use it more as we expand and restructure the APIs - the pattern being config options accepting a primitive value for simplicity, but also an object for fine-grained settings.

erquhart · 2018-02-26T19:12:03Z

website/site/content/docs/configuration-options.md

+**Example**
+
+``` yaml
+slug_type: "latin"


slug_type is a bit general, and could be confusing when we finally do more with slugs and potentially have more configuration options for slugs. What do you think about slug_characters or slug_chars?

Maybe slug_charset, or is that too much overlap with HTTP/HTML type stuff?

slug-encoding?

Any of the above could work, I shied away from really specific terms like encoding because I'm not sure it's technically accurate, and yeah "charset" kind of has a specific meaning too. At any rate, just something accurate that isn't as broad as "type".

The spec refers to itself as a "protocol", so maybe slug_protocol. Accurate but possibly completely opaque to most folks 🤷‍♀️.

I see your worry about technical accuracy, but with the prevalence across languages of terms like url_encoded, I think slug-encoding/slug_encoding feels most naturally understandable.
(It also would be nice if we consistently knew whether to use - or _, but it's too late for that! 😝)

The convention used in Netlify CMS is underscore.

Encoding sounds great, I'm with that.

The convention used in Netlify CMS is underscore.

...except when it's hyphen, like yaml-frontmatter, or camel case, like valueField. ;)

Underscore is certainly the most common, though, and good to know that's the standard going forward. (I wonder if that makes sense to document in the contributor docs?)

I think the options will be unicode and ascii now, instead of iri/uri. @verythorough @erquhart Do you think slug: encoding still makes sense for that?

tech4him1 · 2018-03-17T22:48:11Z

@verythorough I'd appreciate a docs review on this as well! 😄

erquhart · 2018-03-19T16:54:32Z

src/lib/__tests__/urlHelper.spec.js

@@ -81,6 +88,24 @@ describe('sanitizeSlug', ()=> {
    ).toEqual('This-that-one_or.the~other-123');
  });

+  it('should remove accents if set', () => {


'should remove accents with clean_accents set'

erquhart · 2018-03-19T16:54:52Z

src/lib/urlHelper.js

+export function sanitizeSlug(str, options = Map()) {
+  const encoding = options.get('encoding', 'unicode');
+  const stripDiacritics = options.get('clean_accents', false);
+  const replacement = options.get('sanitize_replacement', '-');


Intentionally undocumented?

I wasn't sure if we wanted to wait until someone actually had a valid use case for it -- validating it in src/actions/config.js would take a bit of effort. Thoughts?

Nah, I'm fine with it as is, was just curious.

erquhart

I added a couple of comments, but this looks solid!

tech4him1 · 2018-03-29T21:31:42Z

@vencax This has been released as part of v1.4.0.

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slug fix #1012

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Add config option to strip Unicode from entry filenames.

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uploaded filenames not being slugified #1196

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feat: sanitize media filenames according to global slug setting #3315

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