How can I listen to the "input" event in ckeditor5 ? I would like to be able to use Observables
like this:
Observable.fromEvent(this.editor, "input").debounceTime(250).subscribe(() => {});
So far, I've been able to listen to some events like this:
Observable.fromEvent(this.editor.editing.view, 'selectionChangeDone').subscribe(() => { });
But I don't find the name of the event that would be fired as soon as data changed in the editor. I tried "change" but it only fires when the editor get or lost focus.
Since CKEditor5 v11.0.0 (since 21 July 2018)
What you probably need is the Document#change:data
event fired by editor's document.
editor.model.document.on( 'change:data', () => {
console.log( 'The data has changed!' );
} );
This event is fired when the document changes in such a way which is "visible" in the editor data. There's also a group of changes, like selection position changes, marker changes which do not affect the result of editor.getData()
. To listen to all these changes, you can use a wider Document#change
event:
editor.model.document.on( 'change', () => {
console.log( 'The Document has changed!' );
} );
Prior to CKEditor5 v11.0.0
What you probably need is a change
event fired by editor's document.
editor.model.document.on( 'change', () => {
console.log( 'The Document has changed!' );
} );
As the documentation of this event says:
Fired after each enqueueChange()
block or the outermost change()
block was executed and the document was changed during that block's execution.
The changes which this event will cover include:
- document structure changes,
- selection changes,
- marker changes.
If you want to be notified about all these changes, then simply listen to this event like this:
model.document.on( 'change', () => {
console.log( 'The Document has changed!' );
} );
If, however, you only want to be notified about structure changes, then check whether the differ contains any changes:
model.document.on( 'change', () => {
if ( model.document.differ.getChanges().length > 0 ) {
console.log( 'The Document has changed!' );
}
} );
The last code snippet is useful when implementing features like auto-save.
First of all, I see you are using Observable.fromEvent
which seems to be a part of RxJS and works with jQuery events. CKEditor 5 does not use RxJS nor jQuery. It uses custom events and custom observables which are something different than observable you want to use.
So note that:
Observable.fromEvent(this.editor.editing.view, 'selectionChangeDone');
is not a proper way of listening to the event and works most probably only because of some duck typing.
The proper way of listening on CKE5 events is:
this.editor.editing.view.on( 'selectionChangeDone', () => { /*...*/ } );
Second, 'input' is not an event but a command. If you want to listen in this command execution you can do:
this.editor.commands.get( 'input' ).on( 'execute', ( evt, args ) => {
console.log( evt, args );
} );
However, this is a very fresh API, which will be introduced in the next version of ckeditor-core (0.9.0), so you need to use the current master branch to use it.