author name instead of etherpad's author ID?

[gulaschskanone]

Thanks for the nice plugin!

In my case etherpad's author ID is inserted, but I want to show the author's name (maybe like in comments export ?). Is there any workaround?

<line>
 <attribute key="author" value="a.lkC2bWYR70mHmw0y">text</attribute>
 <!-- /author -->
</line>

[stefanmintert]

Hi gulaschskanone. I will check this.

[stefanmintert]

Hi gulaschskanone

there a (at least) two solutions:

a) write an "author name export" plugin..... and query it for every author name after exporting to xml.

or

b) improve the xml export plugin in the following way:

After the latest refactorings from @tm-linkwerk, we have a "CommentCollector"
https://github.com/stefanmintert/ep_xmlexport/blob/develop/PadProcessor.js#L13

One could copy that approach and write an "AuthorCollector", which looks pretty much the same.

An authorCollector instance (like the commentCollector https://github.com/stefanmintert/ep_xmlexport/blob/develop/PadProcessor.js#L53) would collect the author-IDs.

An authorLoader, like https://github.com/stefanmintert/ep_xmlexport/blob/develop/PadProcessor.js#L55 , would get the authors names by calling http://etherpad.org/doc/v1.5.6/#index_getauthorname_authorid

The serializer would write <authors><author id="..." name="..."/>...</authors> as a sibling element next to <comments>..

That's the idea. Unfortunately, I don't have the time right now; maybe in a few days/weeks. But if you want to implement this, please fork and PR ! If you fork, please fork develop, not master. We have many changes in develop, not yet merged to master. (Still waiting for a bug fix before merging. See issues for details..)

I will leave this issue open, until we have a fix....

Kind regards, Stefan