Merge pull request #8398 from SuperTux88/fix-mentions-with-underscores

Escape mentions before parsing message with markdown for mobile UI

Changelog.md

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ We use yarn to install the frontend dependencies now, so you need to have that i
 * Make inline code inside links show the link color [#8387](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/8387)
 * Fix fetching public posts on first account search was missing some data [#8390](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/8390)
 * Add redirect from mobile UI photo URLs to post when not using mobile UI [#8400](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/8400)
+* Escape mentions before markdown parsing in mobile UI [#8398](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/8398)
 
 ## Features
 * Add client-side cropping of profile image uploads [#7581](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/7581)

lib/diaspora/mentionable.rb

@@ -71,6 +71,16 @@ module Diaspora::Mentionable
     }
   end
 
+  # Escapes special chars in mentions to not be parsed as markdown
+  #
+  # @param [String] text containing mentions
+  # @return [String] escaped message
+  def self.escape_for_markdown(msg_text)
+    msg_text.to_s.gsub(REGEX) {|match_str|
+      match_str.gsub("_", "\\_")
+    }
+  end
+
   private_class_method def self.find_or_fetch_person_by_identifier(identifier)
     Person.find_or_fetch_by_identifier(identifier) if Validation::Rule::DiasporaId.new.valid_value?(identifier)
   rescue DiasporaFederation::Discovery::DiscoveryError

lib/diaspora/message_renderer.rb

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ module Diaspora
         end
       end
 
+      def escape_mentions_for_markdown
+        @message = Diaspora::Mentionable.escape_for_markdown(message)
+      end
+
       def render_mentions
         unless options[:disable_hovercards] || options[:mentioned_people].empty?
           @message = Diaspora::Mentionable.format message, options[:mentioned_people]
@@ -210,6 +214,7 @@ module Diaspora
         normalize
         diaspora_links
         camo_urls if AppConfig.privacy.camo.proxy_markdown_images?
+        escape_mentions_for_markdown
         markdownify
         render_mentions
         render_tags

spec/lib/diaspora/message_renderer_spec.rb

@@ -183,6 +183,16 @@ describe Diaspora::MessageRenderer do
         ).to match(/hovercard/)
       end
 
+      it "does not parse mentions as markdown" do
+        new_person = FactoryBot.create(:person, diaspora_handle: "__underscore__@example.org")
+        expect(
+          message(
+            "Hey @{#{new_person.diaspora_handle}}!",
+            mentioned_people: [new_person]
+          ).markdownified
+        ).to match(%r{>#{new_person.name}</a>})
+      end
+
       it 'should process text with both a hashtag and a link' do
         expect(
           message("Test #tag?\nhttps://joindiaspora.com\n").markdownified