lib/src/inline_syntaxes/emoji_syntax.dart

// Copyright (c) 2022, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

import '../ast.dart';
import '../emojis.dart';
import '../inline_parser.dart';
import 'inline_syntax.dart';

/// Matches GitHub Markdown emoji syntax like `:smile:`.
///
/// There is no formal specification of GitHub's support for this colon-based
/// emoji support, so this syntax is based on the results of Markdown-enabled
/// text fields at github.com.
class EmojiSyntax extends InlineSyntax {
  // Emoji "aliases" are mostly limited to lower-case letters, numbers, and
  // underscores, but GitHub also supports `:+1:` and `:-1:`.
  EmojiSyntax() : super(':([a-z0-9_+-]+):');

  @override
  bool onMatch(InlineParser parser, Match match) {
    final alias = match[1]!;
    final emoji = emojis[alias];
    if (emoji == null) {
      parser.advanceBy(1);
      return false;
    }
    parser.addNode(Text(emoji));

    return true;
  }
}