How to use the `validate` function with `find`? Doesn't seem to be working!

[rfgamaral]

Hi there,

I'm trying to use the validate function with find, but it doesn't seem to be working:

import { find } from 'linkifyjs'

const content = `[GitHub](https://github.com)

[Linkify](https://linkify.js.org "Linkify: a JS plugin by Hypercontext")`

const testA1 = find(content, {
  validate: false
})

const testA2 = find(content, {
  validate: () => false
})

const testA3 = find(content, {
  validate: {
    url: () => false
  }
})

const testB1 = find(content, 'url', {
  validate: false
})

const testB2 = find(content, 'url', {
  validate: () => false
})

const testB3 = find(content, 'url', {
  validate: {
    url: () => false
  }
})

console.log(testA1, testA2, testA3)
console.log(testB1, testB2, testB3)

Output:

CodeSandbox:

• https://codesandbox.io/s/beautiful-grothendieck-6h2v5c?file=/src/index.mjs

Am I using it wrong, or is there an issue somewhere?

[nfrasser]

@rfgamaral thanks for reporting, this is a bug in the find function. Will fix this to the next release. In the mean time, you can try .filter() or something similar on the result of .find() to further filter out matches

[rfgamaral]

@nfrasser I don't think that will work for what I'm trying to achieve, which is to prevent linkify from capturing links enclosed in Markdown syntax. But if you have any workaround suggestions, please, do let me know.

For the record, I want to apply this filtering here, most likely based on a boolean option so that it's user configurable.

[rfgamaral]

@nfrasser Do you have any other workaround that would work for my use case?

[nfrasser]

@rfgamaral apologies for the delay, this is now working with the latest Linkify v4.1.2

[rfgamaral]

Thank you, @nfrasser.