Extract first line from multi-line thing description for the ThingTyp…

[FSeidinger]

Fixes issue #1304 by extracting the first line of a multi-lined thing description.

[ghys]

Thanks - although IMHO it would be enough to just split the string on <br and take the first part (see my remark @ #1304 (comment)), building DOM elements seems a little overkill, wdyt?

[FSeidinger]

Thanks - although IMHO it would be enough to just split the string on <br and take the first part (see my remark @ #1304 (comment)), building DOM elements seems a little overkill, wdyt?

As mentioned in the issue, you will find this solution as a standard for coping with inner HTML. I personally do not have any worries on computational power or memory consumption for just temporarily creating a single <div> tag and parse some lines of HTML.

Bonus is that the script is easy to read and comprehend and the call is very short and also much more comprehend-able than the very long line with ternary operator and two or three parenthesis stacks.

But hey, I just tried to help. At last this is not my code and I have no preferences on it, beside that the bug gets fixed :-)

In the end, you decide.

[ghys]

Ok, fair enough :)