Sed -i ' $d' wise-editor/src/main/webapp/js/editor.jsĬat wise-editor/src/main/webapp/js/mindplot-bundle.js > wise-editor/src/main/webapp/js/editor.js /././wise-editor/src/main/webapp/js/mindplot-bundle.js Instead of this default value, I just changed the code to load the XML file corresponding to the query string:

Looking at my browser Network tab, I figured out that the mapId = 'welcome' in viewmode.html was the name of an XML file in the () directory that was loaded and parsed by the app. They are mostly JS & image files, and not even all of them are needed ! If you look at build_viewer.sh you'll see that I use rsync to extract from the repo only a few files required to run the viewer. Zero call to the Java process is made when loading the default welcome.xml mindmap in viewmode.html ! Extracting the HTML+JS mindmap renderer from WiseMapping Quickly, I realized that it would be even easier than I thought: most of the code logic was in Javascript, the API only serving as a mindmap save/restore mechanism. I'more Python than Ruby, so I replaced the command they used to serve the static files by a Python one. The tests systematically failed, hence I passed =true to all the Maven commands.

To begin with, I followed the project README instructions: So I planned to write a mock API in Python in order to answer the required HTTP calls to display a mindmap based on a text file. Then I realized an Open-Source mindmap software, WiseMapping, was in fact a web interface built on top of a Java REST API. Using graphviz has some severe limitations : big mindmaps are hard to read and navigate due to the absence of a folding mechanism, links are not clickable, etc. The reason behind this experiment (and this previous one with graphviz) is that I wanted to leave the excellent Freeplane mindmapping software for a text file based solution, in order to store my mindmaps in Gitlab. Perfect time to slip in one of their songs. You only need: git, python3, rsync and sed.ĮDIT : in the end I put the viewer in a separate repo: Genesis of the project wisemapping_txt2xml.py text_based_mindmaps.txt > wise-editor/src/main/webapp/samples/text_based_mindmaps.xml

Python mind mapping software