Render message text as markdown in the Compose UI kit - #6681
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WalkthroughThe Compose module replaces the previous Markdown dependency with a Markdown renderer, formatter, entity annotation support, and tests. The sample app adds a persisted Markdown feature flag and selects the new formatter when enabled. ChangesMarkdown rendering
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stream-chat-android-compose/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/compose/ui/util/MarkdownMessageTextFormatter.kt (1)
34-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDocument or remove the new suppressions.
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stream-chat-android-compose/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/compose/ui/util/MarkdownMessageTextFormatter.kt#L34-L34: document why the formatter dependencies cannot use a configuration object, or remove the suppression.stream-chat-android-compose/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/compose/ui/util/TextUtils.kt#L212-L212: document the required restricted API and why a supported alternative is not available.stream-chat-android-compose/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/compose/ui/util/TextUtils.kt#L322-L322: document the exact restricted call or remove the local suppression.As per coding guidelines, “Use explicit
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- Line 154: Update the onLinkClick failure logging in MessageText to avoid
including the raw url value; use a fixed failure message or an established
redaction mechanism while preserving the warning behavior.
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`@stream-chat-android-compose/src/main/java/io/getstream/chat/android/compose/ui/util/internal/MarkdownRenderer.kt`:
- Line 482: Update the character-reference parsing logic around the semicolon
lookup to limit the search range to MaxCharacterReferenceLength characters after
start. Preserve the existing reference parsing behavior while preventing scans
across the entire remaining message when no semicolon is present.
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- Line 228: Add a brief comment explaining that the `@Suppress`("unused")
annotations on the JUnit `@MethodSource` provider functions are required because
JUnit invokes them reflectively and Kotlin cannot detect those references. Apply
the documentation consistently at each affected suppression.
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TextUtils.kt:212, and TextUtils.kt:322. In MarkdownMessageTextFormatter,
document why the formatter dependencies require the long parameter list or
refactor to remove the suppression; in TextUtils at line 212, document the
required restricted API and lack of a supported alternative; at line 322,
document the exact restricted call or remove the local suppression. Prefer
explicit `@OptIn` annotations where applicable.
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Nice work, this reads well. A few small things inline, none blocking.
One thing on the description: it says the render-then-annotate order makes @**Name** render bold and still match the mention. In the app the bold shows but the mention link does not, because filterMentions in MessageComposerController matches the token against the raw composer text, so @**Name** drops the mention before the message is even sent. The behaviour itself seems reasonable to me, markdown inside a mention breaking the mention is fair. It is just that the description promises something that does not happen. Could we reword that part?
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Goal
The View-based kit has rendered markdown for years through
stream-chat-android-markdown-transformer, and the Compose kit has not, so moving from Views to Compose loses the feature. Render message text as markdown in the Compose kit, opt-in like the View kit's.Closes AND-1475
Implementation
Add one public entry point,
MessageTextFormatter.markdownFormatter(...), alongsidedefaultFormatter:Opt-in:
ChatTheme's default is untouched, so nothing renders differently unless an app asks for it. The implementation and its styling stay internal, so the public API this adds is that one function.Render to an
AnnotatedStringthrough the existingMessageTextFormatterseam rather than a tree of composables. iOS does the same, so this reaches parity on everything it supports, and mention highlighting, link handling, auto-translation, long-press and emoji sizing keep working.Markdown renders first, then the entity pass annotates URLs, emails and mentions over the result, mirroring the View kit's
markwon.setMarkdownfollowed byLinkify.addLinks. That ordering is what lets a mention still match once emphasis has been stripped from around it.Parse with
org.jetbrains:markdownon the GFM flavour, which is what makes~~strikethrough~~work. An AST walker emits spans for inline constructs, and paragraphs for blocks.Lay blocks out with one
ParagraphStyleper list item, indented by its nesting level, so a line the layout wraps keeps the horizontal position its own item started at. The level's indent is a paragraph property rather than spaces in the text, which is what makes it apply to wrapped lines. Block separation follows from that: a paragraph break already renders one line break, so a block boundary is a paragraph break plus any further line feeds the source asked for.Draw the block quote rail from the
TextLayoutResultinstead of writing a┃character. A character can only land on a line the renderer broke itself, so it went missing on every wrapped line and left gaps between the others.MessageTextnow keeps the layout result and paints a rect per rendered line of a quote, mirrored to the other side when the paragraph runs right to left. Dropping the character also takes it out of text selection and the accessibility description.Because a list expresses its line breaks as paragraphs, the accessibility description re-materialises them, otherwise a screen reader announces a list as one unbroken run.
Split the entity pass and the translation lookup out of the private default formatter so both formatters share one implementation. Both stay
internal.Annotate only
http,https,mailtoandteldestinations. Message text is written by other people and a tapped link is handed to the system, so a link reading as ordinary text must not be able to open ajavascript:orintent://target, or deep link into the host app.MessageText's link fallback also no longer crashes when nothing on the device can open a URL.Contain render failures: deeply nested markdown can exhaust the stack while parsing, and this runs during composition, so anything thrown falls back to the text as typed instead of taking the message list down.
Mark code spans, code blocks, tables and HTML blocks literal, so a URL or mention inside them is not detected.
Expose it in the Compose sample as a
Markdownfeature flag on the custom login screen, off by default like the other flags there, so a channel can be compared rendered against raw without a rebuild. Keeping it off also leaves the E2E suite, which asserts on message text, seeing exactly what it saw before.Scroll the sample's feature flag list. Adding a ninth flag pushed it past the fold, and the login button was pinned below it by a weighted spacer, so the last flags were unreachable. The whole form scrolls now, which holds at any screen size or font scale.
Drop the
com.github.jeziellago:compose-markdowncatalog entry, unused since:stream-chat-android-ai-assistant-modulewas deleted.Notes
SoftBreakAddsNewLinePlugin.filterMentionsdrops a selected mention whose@<token>is no longer present in the outgoing text, and@**Name**no longer contains@Name. Markdown breaking a mention seems reasonable, so this only notes it rather than changing it.Text.messageTextFormatter. iOS has the same gap on those surfaces.typographyandcolors, so overriding either carries into the rendered headings, code and quotes. There is no markdown-specific styling API yet: SwiftUI exposes none either, and it is easier to add one when asked than to remove it later.Testing
snake_caseidentifiers and arithmetic.