datadom

DOM serializer / deserializer with scriptable plugins.

WIP, please consider this as an unstable library.

Usage

install via npm:

npm install --save @plotdb/datadom

Add datadom.js in your HTML:

<script src="datadom.js"></script>

serialize/deserialize a DOM tree:

json = datadom.serialize(document.querySelector("your-selector"), [])
datadom.deserialize(json,[])
  .then({node, promise}) ->
    node # node is the deserialized DOM tree root.
    promise # promise for asynchronous content
  .then ({node, promise}) -> # all content prepared.

datadom is also a constructor:

dd = new datadom({ ... })
dd.init().then(function() { ... });

API

constructor options:

• plugin: function, of Array of functions as default plugin(s).
  • plugin function accepts 1 parameters: subtree root ( for serialize ) / subdoc root ( for deserialize )
• data: datadom json
• node: root of DOM tree. ignored if data is provided.
• window: optional window object if run in NodeJS.

datadom object methods:

• init(): initialize data and node ( from provided counterpart ). Return promise.
• update(ops): apply ops ( operation transformations ) to internal data and DOM tree.
• getData(): return datadom json.
• getNode(): return root of the corresponding DOM tree.

datadom class methods:

• serialize(node, plugin): convert DOM tree (with root node) into json.
  • node: root node of DOM tree to serialize
  • plugin(d): optional handler for custom node types.
• deserialize(data, plugin): convert datadom json into DOM tree
  • data: a datadom json.
  • plugin(d): optional handler for custom node types.

Node.js

to run in nodeJS, use jsdom and pass window as an argument:

datadom.deserialize(data, [], (new JSDOM()).window);

similarly, pass window in constructor when using new datadom( ... ):

new datadom({ ..., window: (new JSDOM()).window)});

Plugins

(TBD) check doc/plugin.md for more information.

License

MIT