CUNY Academic Commons

A first pass at this feature is ready for testing.

I mostly replicated the behavior of the existing tool. See attached gif. I tried to give some visual indicators of edit mode (the grey background, the fixed-width font) as well as of success/failure (changing the monospace font background color).

The Blocks Everywhere implementation means that the save routines are truly wacky. I have to do a separate AJAX fetch of the cac-cv object in order to get the necessary data available via register_rest_field(). In addition, it's not possible in Gutenberg to hook into the Save routine, so I couldn't set up a separate AJAX request to save the shortlink. Instead, I piggyback on the main post save, and parse the attributes using parse_blocks() in order to get the new shortlink. To enforce consistency in case of failed shortlink creation, I then override the saved attribute with the value from usermeta when the cac-cv post is loaded via REST. It's very messy but I couldn't figure out a better way to work around the limitations of Gutenberg, Blocks Everywhere, and the way that we store and validate the information.