Linking TDs to Playground

[egekorkan]

With @fexpal we have discussed the posibility to transfer TDs from Editdor to Playground and vice versa. TD Links in Playground are generated via https://www.npmjs.com/package/lz-string (also see eclipse-thingweb/playground#359) which has some advantages to usual URL encoding. A button can be placed that simply does the same encoding to the TD in the JSON Editor part and open a new tab with playground in it for future tests on the TD.

It might be also worthwhile to use the same compression here but we can do a more objective comparison first.

[spf00]

When sharing a TD via the TD Playground and using the compressed string as input for the ediTDor I always end up with a "tdjson" prefix. @egekorkan do you know why that's the case? It seems to me that the Playground does some extra steps when compressing and decompressing a TD/TM via lz-string.

[egekorkan]

That is added since we have a single way to share TDs and TMs and we use this to distinguish whether the intention is to create a TD or TM. As to why finding a TM or TD is not automatic in playground, see eclipse-thingweb/playground#223

[spf00]

Okay so for the time being I think we should do the same thing. Do you agree with that @egekorkan?

[egekorkan]

Okay so for the time being I think we should do the same thing. Do you agree with that @egekorkan?

Sorry for the late reply. I think that editdor also never tries to guess whether there is a TD or TM, so the same approach works.