Blocks Conversion Tool
Introduction
This package implements a server with a simple API to convert HTML (as used in Plone Classic) to Blocks (as used on Volto).
Starting the server
From source
git clone https://github.com/plone/blocks-conversion-tool.git
cd blocks-conversion-tool
yarn install
yarn start
With Docker
docker run -it -p 5000:5000 plone/blocks-conversion-tool:latest
Usage
HTML to Blocks (Slate)
Slate is going to be the default text block for Plone 6, to convert HTML to an array of blocks call the service passing the HTML as shown below:
curl -i -X POST http://localhost:5000/html -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-raw '{"html": "<p>Hello world!</p>"}'
HTML to Blocks (DraftJS)
Draft-JS is the legacy default text block used in Volto.
curl -i -X POST http://localhost:5000/html -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-raw '{"html": "<p>Hello world!</p>", "converter": "draftjs"}'