Parse mardown from string inside remark plugin

[stevemk14ebr]

Hello, pretty simple setup i've got. I'm using remark directives as placeholders for some additional markdown that is inserted via a remarkPlugin. This code is pretty simple:

function myDerectives() {
    return transform;

    function transform(tree) {
        visit(tree, ['textDirective'], ondirective(tree))
    }

    function ondirective(node) {
        const content = NodeToString(node);
        const tag = node.name;
        if (tag === 'aster') {
            let replacementText = ... do some application specific stuff ...

            // currently using mdast-util-from-markdown
            let renderedChildren = fromMarkdown(rendered);

            // get children of the new root, we don't want a second root that'd be invalid
            node.type = renderedChildren.children[0].type;
            node.children = [...renderedChildren.children[0].children];
        }
    }
}

And this works great. HOWEVER, the mdast-util-from-markdown is not going to be configured the with the same plugins as the remark parse that itself invokes my own myDerectives plugin. This becomes a problem if I want my substituted text to also support language extensions like remark-gfm, remark-derictives or anything like that, as i'd have to configure mdast-util-from-markdown to also use those extensions but I can't know which plugins someone uses from within my plugin itself.

So my question. Can I get a reference to the ReMark object itself from a plugin, so that I can parse additional markdown like this, kind of 'recursively' if you will. Ex of what it looks like in my mind:

// make our remark object with plugins
const jiraConverter = Remark().use([
        [RemarkGFM, { singleTilde: false, tableCellPadding: false }], RemarkBreaks, RemarkDirective, [myDerective, { schema, renderMap, instanceMap }], RemarkStringify]);

// inside myDerective
let renderedChildren = GetCurrentPipeline().processSync(rendered);

The new function would be GetCurrentPipeline() which just gives me the jiraConverter object that itself invoked myDerective. Is this possible?

[stevemk14ebr]

Nvm I figured it out. Cool :)

function myDerectives() {
    let RemarkParser = this;
    return (...args) => { transform(RemarkParser, ...args) } ;

    function transform(RemrkParser, tree) {
        visit(tree, ['textDirective'], (...args) => { ondirective(RemarkParser, ...args) } )
    }

    function ondirective(RemarkParser, node) {
        const content = NodeToString(node);
        const tag = node.name;
        if (tag === 'aster') {
            let replacementText = ... do some application specific stuff ...

            // currently using mdast-util-from-markdown
            let renderedChildren = RemarkParser.parse(replacementText);

            // get children of the new root, we don't want a second root that'd be invalid
            node.type = renderedChildren.children[0].type;
            node.children = [...renderedChildren.children[0].children];
        }
    }
}

[wooorm]

This will probably work for your use case.
However, pipelines could be made to start with HTML. Or, the other way around, to end with HTML.
So this might not completely match with what you expect