preview endpoint

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/isso/tests/test_comments.py b/isso/tests/test_comments.py
index 70bd3a3..1e2bdf1 100644
--- a/isso/tests/test_comments.py
+++ b/isso/tests/test_comments.py
@@ -375,6 +375,14 @@ class TestComments(unittest.TestCase):
         # just for the record
         self.assertEqual(self.post('/id/1/dislike', content_type=js).status_code, 200)
 
+    def testPreview(self):
+        response = self.post('/preview', data=json.dumps({'text': 'This is **mark***down*'}))
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+
+        rv = loads(response.data)
+        self.assertEqual(rv["text"], '<p>This is <strong>mark</strong><em>down</em></p>')
+
+
 
 class TestModeratedComments(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/isso/views/comments.py b/isso/views/comments.py
index 0272fa3..c0b03c6 100644
--- a/isso/views/comments.py
+++ b/isso/views/comments.py
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ class API(object):
         ('moderate',('POST', '/id/<int:id>/<any(activate,delete):action>/<string:key>')),
         ('like',    ('POST', '/id/<int:id>/like')),
         ('dislike', ('POST', '/id/<int:id>/dislike')),
-        ('demo',    ('GET', '/demo'))
+        ('demo',    ('GET', '/demo')),
+        ('preview', ('POST', '/preview'))
     ]
 
     def __init__(self, isso, hasher):
@@ -476,5 +477,13 @@ class API(object):
 
         return JSON(self.comments.count(*data), 200)
 
+    def preview(self, environment, request):
+        data = request.get_json()
+
+        if "text" not in data or data["text"] is None:
+            raise BadRequest("no text given")
+
+        return JSON({'text': self.isso.render(data["text"])}, 200)
+
     def demo(self, env, req):
         return redirect(get_current_url(env) + '/index.html')