Force nodes of specific type to re-render

[fluidsonic]

I’ve got it working with NodeView and Decoration.

Updating my variable values through a Transaction updates related Decorations which in turn updates related NodeViews. All encapsulated nicely in a Plugin and the variable values are now part of the state of my Plugin. The respective NodeSpec is also defined by the Plugin and accessed using plugin.nodeSpecs.

But I still have to access a variable’s value in NodeSpec.toDOM() for copy & paste to work properly. Unfortunately I’ve only got access to the Node and not the EditorState, so I cannot access the variable values from my Plugin’s state.

There are multiple potential paths forward now:

1. I find a way to access a Plugin’s state from within NodeSpec.toDOM().
   I don’t think there is a proper one.
2. I maintain a reference the EditorView from within my NodeSpec in order to access the current EditorState.
   That doesn’t sound clean.
3. I allow my Plugin to provide a DOMSerializer that can serialize my NodeSpec. The problem here is the same as with toDOM() though: I don’t have access to the EditorState.
   So also not clean.
4. I put all state of a variable (label, value, etc.) directly into all Nodes that reference it. I replace these Nodes every that state changes.
   That doesn’t sound right either. The node is only a simple variable reference with a name. Adding the value and other information to it shouldn’t be necessary.

It’s basically similar to the issue that I already have with state-sensitive text serialization, just with HTML this time:

Define text serialization in NodeSpec

Is there an isolated way of defining how a node is serialized to text, preferably directly in the NodeSpec? Let’s take the dino example: https://prosemirror.net/examples/dino/ If I copy the second line and pasted it here as plain text, I get this: This paragraph , for example, is full of dinosaurs. What I would like to have is the following result: This paragraph stegosaurus, for example, triceratops is full tyrannosaurus of dinosaurs. Achieving that seems to be possible only using t…

Desired HTML output:

<span data-variable="varname">varvalue</span>

(varname is a Node attribute, varvalue is Plugin state)

Desired text output:

varvalue

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Am I missing something here or is there no good solution to that problem?