getMsgTextFromStream: inserting breaklines problem

[user2018]

I have the following function defined in userChrome.js:

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function getMessageBody(aMessageHeader)
{
   let messenger = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIMessenger);
   let listener = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/sync-stream-listener;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISyncStreamListener);
   let uri = aMessageHeader.folder.getUriForMsg(aMessageHeader);
   messenger.messageServiceFromURI(uri).streamMessage(uri, listener, null, null, false, "");
   let folder = aMessageHeader.folder;
   return folder.getMsgTextFromStream(listener.inputStream, aMessageHeader.Charset, 65536, 32768, false, true, { });
}

This was working well, but I have noticed that now, when I use it to retrieve the body of a message as text, newlines are artificially inserted in the text retrieved (I do not see those newlines in the message view, they are not there). It seems like an artificial breakline is added to limit the line's lenght. This is inconvenient because then I have to manually remove the breaklines.

This change might have been introduced with some Thunderbird's update, as I think this problem did not exist before.

Any idea about how this could be solved?

Thank you.

[morat]

I don't know. That exact code is still being used in a calendar function.

Reference
http://searchfox.org/comm-esr78/search?q=calendarItemFromMessage

P.S.

It's best to post the Thunderbird userChrome.js topics in the Extension Development forum.

[LIMPET235]

Moving this to the Extension Dev forum...

[morat]

The following test code works for me. I don't see extra newlines.

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(function () {
  var msgHdr = gFolderDisplay.selectedMessage;
  var messenger = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger;1"].
    createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIMessenger);
  var listener = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/sync-stream-listener;1"].
    createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISyncStreamListener);
  var uri = msgHdr.folder.getUriForMsg(msgHdr);
  messenger.messageServiceFromURI(uri).streamMessage(uri, listener, null, null, false, "");
  var folder = msgHdr.folder;
  var text = folder.getMsgTextFromStream(listener.inputStream, msgHdr.Charset, 65536, 32768, false, true, {});
  var clipboard = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/widget/clipboardhelper;1"].
    getService(Components.interfaces.nsIClipboardHelper);
  clipboard.copyString(text);
  alert("Plain text message copied to clipboard.");
})();

[user2018]

I tried the code above and I see the "extra" breaklines in the messages I receive. However, by playing with this I have realized that the breaklines actually seem to exist in the message received (if I save the email as .eml and I open it with a text editor, I also see the "extra" breaklines). However, they are not shown in the message view panel of Thunderbird, so if I copy and paste the contents of the message by selecting the text from the message view panel of Thunderbird the "extra" breaklines are not copied. I guess I have some property defined in Thunderbird to automatically remove the breaklines (not sure about this... I know is that I have auto-wrapping, but this seems to be something else).

It would be great if I could modify the JavaScript code to be able to get the text in the body as shown in the message view panel of Thunderbird (that is, without the "extra" breaklines), if possible.

Any suggestion is welcme.

[morat]

IMO, the getMsgTextFromStream method works correctly.

You are stripping html tags from the output with the getMsgTextFromStream method.

i.e. aStripHTMLTags param is true

Reference
http://searchfox.org/comm-esr78/search?q=getMsgTextFromStream&path=idl

So of course the .eml file will be different.