Introduction

In a JavaScript model file, you have access to a global Grabber helper object, which contains a handful of functions useful in models.

Some of them are simply JavaScript functions, and others are bindings to C++ code, when the JavaScript API is not sufficient, or when Qt can do the job easily.

C++

regexMatches

Parameters:

• regex (string)
• str (string)

Returns: object[]

Description

Global match a PCRE regex in a string.

Example

\d+ (\d+) (?<third>\d+)

"01 23 45 67 89 01 23 45 67 89"

[
    {
        "0": "01 23 45",
        "1": "23",
        "2": "45"
        "third": "45"
    },
    {
        "0": "67 89 01",
        "1": "89",
        "2": "01",
        "third": "01"
    },
    {
        "0": "23 45 67",
        "1": "45",
        "2": "67",
        "third": "67"
    }
]

parseXML

Parameters:

• str (string)

Returns: object

Description

Parses the string passed and return the parsed XML tree.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<posts type="array">
    <post>
        <id>123</id>
        <name>toto</name>
    </post>
    <post>
        <id attr="456">789</id>
        <name>test</name>
    </post>
</posts>

{
    "posts": {
        "@attributes": {
            "type": "array"
        },
        "post": [
            {
                "id": {
                    "#text": "123"
                },
                "name": {
                    "#text": "toto"
                }
            },
            {
                "id": {
                    "@attributes": {
                        "attr": "456"
                    },
                    "#text": "789"
                },
                "name": {
                    "#text": "test"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

parseHTML

Parameters:

• html (string)
• fragment (bool) = false

Returns: object (JavascriptHtmlDocument)

Description

Parses the string passed and return a parsed HTML node object.

Set fragment to true if the HTML to parse is not a whole HTML document but only a part of it.

Example

const parsed = Grabber.parseHTML(src);
const images = parsed.find("#images-list img");
const inner = images.map((img) => img.innerHTML());

JavascriptHtmlDocument::find

Parameters:

• css (string)

Returns: object[] (JavascriptHtmlDocument[])

Description

Returns a list of nodes matching the passed CSS selectors.

JavascriptHtmlDocument::tag

Returns: string

Description

Returns the tag name of the node.

JavascriptHtmlDocument::outerHTML

Returns: string

Description

Returns the serialized HTML of the element and its descendants.

JavascriptHtmlDocument::innerHTML

Returns: string

Description

Returns the serialized HTML of the element’s descendants.

JavascriptHtmlDocument::innerText

Returns: string

Description

Returns the rendered text content of an element.

JavascriptHtmlDocument::path

Returns: string[]

Description

Returns the list of the tags of the parent nodes.

JavascriptHtmlDocument::pathIds

Returns: string[]

Description

Returns the list of the IDs of the parent nodes.