#256 - Support for .loom files for the Dataloom plugin

src/cache-manager.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   getAliasesFromMetadata,
   getTagsFromMetadata,
   isFileCanvas,
+  isFileFromDataloomPlugin,
   isFilePlaintext,
   logDebug,
   makeMD5,
@@ -58,6 +59,30 @@ async function getAndMapIndexedDocument(
     content = texts.join('\r\n')
   }
 
+  // ** Dataloom plugin **
+  else if (isFileFromDataloomPlugin(path)) {
+    try {
+      const data = JSON.parse(await app.vault.cachedRead(file))
+      // data is a json object, we recursively iterate the keys
+      // and concatenate the values if the key is "markdown"
+      const texts: string[] = []
+      const iterate = (obj: any) => {
+        for (const key in obj) {
+          if (typeof obj[key] === 'object') {
+            iterate(obj[key])
+          } else if (key === 'markdown') {
+            texts.push(obj[key])
+          }
+        }
+      }
+      iterate(data)
+      content = texts.join('\r\n')
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error('Omnisearch: Error while parsing Dataloom file', path)
+      console.error(e)
+    }
+  }
+
   // ** Image or PDF **
   else if (extractor?.canFileBeExtracted(path)) {
     content = await extractor.extractText(file)

src/tools/utils.ts

@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ export function isFileIndexable(path: string): boolean {
   return (
     isFilePlaintext(path) ||
     isFileCanvas(path) ||
+    isFileFromDataloomPlugin(path) ||
     (canIndexPDF && isFilePDF(path)) ||
     (canIndexImages && isFileImage(path))
   )
@@ -292,6 +293,10 @@ export function isFileCanvas(path: string): boolean {
   return path.endsWith('.canvas')
 }
 
+export function isFileFromDataloomPlugin(path: string): boolean {
+  return path.endsWith('.loom')
+}
+
 export function getExtension(path: string): string {
   const split = path.split('.')
   return split[split.length - 1] ?? ''