Add support for markdown to HTML conversion (matrix). Closes #663 (#670)

This uses our own gomatrix lib with the SendHTML function which
adds HTML to formatted_body in matrix.
golang-commonmark is used to convert markdown into valid HTML.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bridge/helper/helper.go b/bridge/helper/helper.go
index d9acb3d5..12a587f0 100644
--- a/bridge/helper/helper.go
+++ b/bridge/helper/helper.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/42wim/matterbridge/bridge/config"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"gitlab.com/golang-commonmark/markdown"
 )
 
 func DownloadFile(url string) (*[]byte, error) {
@@ -151,3 +152,8 @@ func ClipMessage(text string, length int) string {
 	}
 	return text
 }
+
+func ParseMarkdown(input string) string {
+	md := markdown.New(markdown.XHTMLOutput(true), markdown.Breaks(true))
+	return (md.RenderToString([]byte(input)))
+}