Server-side hooks

These hooks are called on server-side.

loadSettings

Called from: src/node/server.js

Things in context:

settings - the settings object

Use this hook to receive the global settings in your plugin.

shutdown

Called from: src/node/server.js

Things in context: None

This hook runs before shutdown. Use it to stop timers, close sockets and files, flush buffers, etc. The database is not available while this hook is running. The shutdown function must not block for long because there is a short timeout before the process is forcibly terminated.

The shutdown function must return a Promise, which must resolve to undefined. Returning callback(value) will return a Promise that is resolved to value.

Example:

// using an async function
exports.shutdown = async (hookName, context) => {
  await flushBuffers();
};

pluginUninstall

Called from: src/static/js/pluginfw/installer.js

Things in context:

plugin_name - self-explanatory

If this hook returns an error, the callback to the uninstall function gets an error as well. This mostly seems useful for handling additional features added in based on the installation of other plugins, which is pretty cool!

pluginInstall

Called from: src/static/js/pluginfw/installer.js

Things in context:

plugin_name - self-explanatory

If this hook returns an error, the callback to the install function gets an error, too. This seems useful for adding in features when a particular plugin is installed.

`init_<plugin name>`

Called from: src/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js

Run during startup after the named plugin is initialized.

Context properties:

logger: An object with the following console-like methods: debug, info, log, warn, error.

`expressPreSession`

Called from: src/node/hooks/express.js

Called during server startup just before the express-session middleware is added to the Express Application object. Use this hook to add route handlers or middleware that executes before express-session state is created and authentication is performed. This is useful for creating public endpoints that don't spam the database with new express-session records or trigger authentication.

WARNING: All handlers registered during this hook run before the built-in authentication checks, so any handled endpoints will be public unless the handler itself authenticates the user.

Context properties:

app: The Express Application object.

Example:

javascript

exports.expressPreSession = async (hookName, {app}) => {
  app.get('/hello-world', (req, res) => res.send('hello world'));
};

`expressConfigure`

Called from: src/node/hooks/express.js

Called during server startup just after the express-session middleware is added to the Express Application object. Use this hook to add route handlers or middleware that executes after express-session state is created and authentication is performed.

Context properties:

app: The Express Application object.

`expressCreateServer`

Called from: src/node/hooks/express.js

Identical to the expressConfigure hook (the two run in parallel with each other) except this hook's context includes the HTTP Server object.

Context properties:

app: The Express Application object.
server: The http.Server or https.Server object.

expressCloseServer

Called from: src/node/hooks/express.js

Things in context: Nothing

This hook is called when the HTTP server is closing, which happens during shutdown (see the shutdown hook) and when the server restarts (e.g., when a plugin is installed via the /admin/plugins page). The HTTP server may or may not already be closed when this hook executes.

Example:

exports.expressCloseServer = async () => {
  await doSomeCleanup();
};

eejsBlock_`<name>`

Called from: src/node/eejs/index.js

Things in context:

content - the content of the block

This hook gets called upon the rendering of an ejs template block. For any specific kind of block, you can change how that block gets rendered by modifying the content object passed in.

Available blocks in pad.html are:

htmlHead - after <html> and immediately before the title tag
styles - the style <link>s
body - the contents of the body tag
editbarMenuLeft - the left tool bar (consider using the toolbar controller instead of manually adding html here)
editbarMenuRight - right tool bar
afterEditbar - allows you to add stuff immediately after the toolbar
userlist - the contents of the userlist dropdown
loading - the initial loading message
mySettings - the left column of the settings dropdown ("My view"); intended for adding checkboxes only
mySettings.dropdowns - add your dropdown settings here
globalSettings - the right column of the settings dropdown ("Global view")
importColumn - import form
exportColumn - export form
modals - Contains all connectivity messages
embedPopup - the embed dropdown
scripts - Add your script tags here, if you really have to (consider use client-side hooks instead)

timeslider.html blocks:

timesliderStyles
timesliderScripts
timesliderBody
timesliderTop
timesliderEditbarRight
modals

index.html blocks:

indexCustomStyles - contains the index.css <link> tag, allows you to add your own or to customize the one provided by the active skin
indexWrapper - contains the form for creating new pads
indexCustomScripts - contains the index.js <script> tag, allows you to add your own or to customize the one provided by the active skin

padInitToolbar

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/specialpages.js

Things in context:

toolbar - the toolbar controller that will render the toolbar eventually

Here you can add custom toolbar items that will be available in the toolbar config in settings.json. For more about the toolbar controller see the API section.

Usage examples:

https://github.com/tiblu/ep_authorship_toggle

onAccessCheck

Called from: src/node/db/SecurityManager.js

Things in context:

padID - the real ID (never the read-only ID) of the pad the user wants to access
token - the token of the author
sessionCookie - the session the use has

This hook gets called when the access to the concrete pad is being checked. Return false to deny access.

`getAuthorId`

Called from src/node/db/AuthorManager.js

Called when looking up (or creating) the author ID for a user, except for author IDs obtained via the HTTP API. Registered hook functions are called until one returns a non-undefined value. If a truthy value is returned by a hook function, it is used as the user's author ID. Otherwise, the value of the dbKey context property is used to look up the author ID. If there is no such author ID at that key, a new author ID is generated and associated with that key.

Context properties:

dbKey: Database key to use when looking up the user's author ID if no hook function returns an author ID. This is initialized to the user-supplied token value (see the token context property), but hook functions can modify this to control how author IDs are allocated to users. If no author ID is associated with this database key, a new author ID will be randomly generated and associated with the key. For security reasons, if this is modified it should be modified to not look like a valid token (see the token context property) unless the plugin intentionally wants the user to be able to impersonate another user.
token: The user-supplied token, or nullish for an anonymous user. Tokens are secret values that must not be disclosed to others. If non-null, the token is guaranteed to be a string with the form t.<base64url> where <base64url> is any valid non-empty base64url string (RFC 4648 section 5 with padding). Example: t.twim3X2_KGiRj8cJ-3602g==.
user: If the user has authenticated, this is an object from settings.users (or similar from an authentication plugin). Etherpad core and all good authentication plugins set the username property of this object to a string that uniquely identifies the authenticated user. This object is nullish if the user has not authenticated.

Example:

javascript

exports.getAuthorId = async (hookName, context) => {
  const {username} = context.user || {};
  // If the user has not authenticated, or has "authenticated" as the guest
  // user, do the default behavior (try another plugin if any, falling through
  // to using the token as the database key).
  if (!username || username === 'guest') return;
  // The user is authenticated and has a username. Give the user a stable author
  // ID so that they appear to be the same author even after clearing cookies or
  // accessing the pad from another device. Note that this string is guaranteed
  // to never have the form of a valid token; without that guarantee an
  // unauthenticated user might be able to impersonate an authenticated user.
  context.dbKey = `username=${username}`;
  // Return a falsy but non-undefined value to stop Etherpad from calling any
  // more getAuthorId hook functions and look up the author ID using the
  // username-derived database key.
  return '';
};

`padCreate`

Called from: src/node/db/Pad.js

Called when a new pad is created.

Context properties:

pad: The Pad object.
authorId: The ID of the author who created the pad.
author (deprecated): Synonym of authorId.

`padDefaultContent`

Called from src/node/db/Pad.js

Called to obtain a pad's initial content, unless the pad is being created with specific content. The return value is ignored; to change the content, modify the content context property.

This hook is run asynchronously. All registered hook functions are run concurrently (via Promise.all()), so be careful to avoid race conditions when reading and modifying the context properties.

Context properties:

pad: The newly created Pad object.
authorId: The author ID of the user that is creating the pad.
type: String identifying the content type. Currently this is 'text' and must not be changed. Future versions of Etherpad may add support for HTML, jsdom objects, or other formats, so plugins must assert that this matches a supported content type before reading content.
content: The pad's initial content. Change this property to change the pad's initial content. If the content type is changed, the type property must also be updated to match. Plugins must check the value of the type property before reading this value.

`padLoad`

Called from: src/node/db/PadManager.js

Called when a pad is loaded, including after new pad creation.

Context properties:

pad: The Pad object.

`padUpdate`

Called from: src/node/db/Pad.js

Called when an existing pad is updated.

Context properties:

pad: The Pad object.
authorId: The ID of the author who updated the pad.
author (deprecated): Synonym of authorId.
revs: The index of the new revision.
changeset: The changeset of this revision (see Changeset Library).

`padCopy`

Called from: src/node/db/Pad.js

Called when a pad is copied so that plugins can copy plugin-specific database records or perform some other plugin-specific initialization.

Order of events when a pad is copied:

Destination pad is deleted if it exists and overwrite is permitted. This causes the padRemove hook to run.
Pad-specific database records are copied in the database, except for records with plugin-specific database keys.
A new Pad object is created for the destination pad. This causes the padLoad hook to run.
This hook runs.

Context properties:

srcPad: The source Pad object.
dstPad: The destination Pad object.

Usage examples:

https://github.com/ether/ep_comments_page

`padRemove`

Called from: src/node/db/Pad.js

Called when an existing pad is removed/deleted. Plugins should use this to clean up any plugin-specific pad records from the database.

Context properties:

pad: Pad object for the pad that is being deleted.

Usage examples:

https://github.com/ether/ep_comments_page

`padCheck`

Called from: src/node/db/Pad.js

Called when a consistency check is run on a pad, after the core checks have completed successfully. An exception should be thrown if the pad is faulty in some way.

Context properties:

pad: The Pad object that is being checked.

socketio

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/socketio.js

Things in context:

app - the application object
io - the socketio object
server - the http server object

I have no idea what this is useful for, someone else will have to add this description.

`preAuthorize`

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Called for each HTTP request before any authentication checks are performed. The registered preAuthorize hook functions are called one at a time until one explicitly grants or denies the request by returning true or false, respectively. If none of the hook functions return anything, the access decision is deferred to the normal authentication and authorization checks.

Example uses:

Always grant access to static content.
Process an OAuth callback.
Drop requests from IP addresses that have failed N authentication checks within the past X minutes.

Return values:

undefined (or []) defers the access decision to the next registered preAuthorize hook function, or to the normal authentication and authorization checks if no more preAuthorize hook functions remain.
true (or [true]) immediately grants access to the requested resource, unless the request is for an /admin page in which case it is treated the same as returning undefined. (This prevents buggy plugins from accidentally granting admin access to the general public.)
false (or [false]) immediately denies the request. The preAuthnFailure hook will be called to handle the failure.

Context properties:

req: The Express Request object.
res: The Express Response object.
next: Callback to immediately hand off handling to the next Express middleware/handler, or to the next matching route if 'route' is passed as the first argument. Do not call this unless you understand the consequences.

Example:

javascript

exports.preAuthorize = async (hookName, {req}) => {
  if (await ipAddressIsFirewalled(req)) return false;
  if (requestIsForStaticContent(req)) return true;
  if (requestIsForOAuthCallback(req)) return true;
  // Defer the decision to the next step by returning undefined.
};

authorize

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Things in context:

req - the request object
res - the response object
next - ?
resource - the path being accessed

This hook is called to handle authorization. It is especially useful for controlling access to specific paths.

A plugin's authorize function is only called if all of the following are true:

The request is not for static content or an API endpoint. (Requests for static content and API endpoints are always authorized, even if unauthenticated.)
The requireAuthentication and requireAuthorization settings are both true.
The user has already successfully authenticated.
The user is not an admin (admin users are always authorized).
The path being accessed is not an /admin path (/admin paths can only be accessed by admin users, and admin users are always authorized).
An authorize function from a different plugin has not already caused authorization to pass or fail.

Note that the authorize hook cannot grant access to /admin pages. If admin access is desired, the is_admin user setting must be set to true. This can be set in the settings file or by the authenticate hook.

You can pass the following values to the provided callback:

[true] or ['create'] will grant access to modify or create the pad if the request is for a pad, otherwise access is simply granted. Access to a pad will be downgraded to modify-only if settings.editOnly is true or the user's canCreate setting is set to false, and downgraded to read-only if the user's readOnly setting is true.
['modify'] will grant access to modify but not create the pad if the request is for a pad, otherwise access is simply granted. Access to a pad will be downgraded to read-only if the user's readOnly setting is true.
['readOnly'] will grant read-only access.
[false] will deny access.
[] or undefined will defer the authorization decision to the next authorization plugin (if any, otherwise deny).

Example:

exports.authorize = (hookName, context, cb) => {
  const user = context.req.session.user;
  const path = context.req.path;  // or context.resource
  if (isExplicitlyProhibited(user, path)) return cb([false]);
  if (isExplicitlyAllowed(user, path)) return cb([true]);
  return cb([]);  // Let the next authorization plugin decide
};

authenticate

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Things in context:

req - the request object
res - the response object
users - the users object from settings.json (possibly modified by plugins)
next - ?
username - the username used (optional)
password - the password used (optional)

This hook is called to handle authentication.

Plugins that supply an authenticate function should probably also supply an authnFailure function unless falling back to HTTP basic authentication is appropriate upon authentication failure.

This hook is only called if either the requireAuthentication setting is true or the request is for an /admin page.

Calling the provided callback with [true] or [false] will cause authentication to succeed or fail, respectively. Calling the callback with [] or undefined will defer the authentication decision to the next authentication plugin (if any, otherwise fall back to HTTP basic authentication).

If you wish to provide a mix of restricted and anonymous access (e.g., some pads are private, others are public), you can "authenticate" (as a guest account) users that have not yet logged in, and rely on other hooks (e.g., authorize, onAccessCheck, handleMessageSecurity) to authorize specific privileged actions.

If authentication is successful, the authenticate function MUST set context.req.session.user to the user's settings object. The username property of this object should be set to the user's username. The settings object should come from global settings (context.users[username]).

Example:

exports.authenticate = (hook_name, context, cb) => {
  if (notApplicableToThisPlugin(context)) {
    return cb([]);  // Let the next authentication plugin decide
  }
  const username = authenticate(context);
  if (!username) {
    console.warn(`ep_myplugin.authenticate: Failed authentication from IP ${context.req.ip}`);
    return cb([false]);
  }
  console.info(`ep_myplugin.authenticate: Successful authentication from IP ${context.req.ip} for user ${username}`);
  const users = context.users;
  if (!(username in users)) users[username] = {};
  users[username].username = username;
  context.req.session.user = users[username];
  return cb([true]);
};

authFailure

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Things in context:

req - the request object
res - the response object
next - ?

DEPRECATED: Use authnFailure or authzFailure instead.

This hook is called to handle an authentication or authorization failure.

Plugins that supply an authenticate function should probably also supply an authnFailure function unless falling back to HTTP basic authentication is appropriate upon authentication failure.

A plugin's authFailure function is only called if all of the following are true:

There was an authentication or authorization failure.
The failure was not already handled by an authFailure function from another plugin.
For authentication failures: The failure was not already handled by the authnFailure hook.
For authorization failures: The failure was not already handled by the authzFailure hook.

Calling the provided callback with [true] tells Etherpad that the failure was handled and no further error handling is required. Calling the callback with [] or undefined defers error handling to the next authFailure plugin (if any, otherwise fall back to HTTP basic authentication for an authentication failure or a generic 403 page for an authorization failure).

Example:

exports.authFailure = (hookName, context, cb) => {
  if (notApplicableToThisPlugin(context)) {
    return cb([]);  // Let the next plugin handle the error
  }
  context.res.redirect(makeLoginURL(context.req));
  return cb([true]);
};

preAuthzFailure

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Things in context:

req - the request object
res - the response object

This hook is called to handle a pre-authentication authorization failure.

A plugin's preAuthzFailure function is only called if the pre-authentication authorization failure was not already handled by a preAuthzFailure function from another plugin.

Calling the provided callback with [true] tells Etherpad that the failure was handled and no further error handling is required. Calling the callback with [] or undefined defers error handling to a preAuthzFailure function from another plugin (if any, otherwise fall back to a generic 403 error page).

Example:

exports.preAuthzFailure = (hookName, context, cb) => {
  if (notApplicableToThisPlugin(context)) return cb([]);
  context.res.status(403).send(renderFancy403Page(context.req));
  return cb([true]);
};

authnFailure

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Things in context:

req - the request object
res - the response object

This hook is called to handle an authentication failure.

Plugins that supply an authenticate function should probably also supply an authnFailure function unless falling back to HTTP basic authentication is appropriate upon authentication failure.

A plugin's authnFailure function is only called if the authentication failure was not already handled by an authnFailure function from another plugin.

Calling the provided callback with [true] tells Etherpad that the failure was handled and no further error handling is required. Calling the callback with [] or undefined defers error handling to an authnFailure function from another plugin (if any, otherwise fall back to the deprecated authFailure hook).

Example:

exports.authnFailure = (hookName, context, cb) => {
  if (notApplicableToThisPlugin(context)) return cb([]);
  context.res.redirect(makeLoginURL(context.req));
  return cb([true]);
};

authzFailure

Called from: src/node/hooks/express/webaccess.js

Things in context:

req - the request object
res - the response object

This hook is called to handle a post-authentication authorization failure.

A plugin's authzFailure function is only called if the authorization failure was not already handled by an authzFailure function from another plugin.

Calling the provided callback with [true] tells Etherpad that the failure was handled and no further error handling is required. Calling the callback with [] or undefined defers error handling to an authzFailure function from another plugin (if any, otherwise fall back to the deprecated authFailure hook).

Example:

exports.authzFailure = (hookName, context, cb) => {
  if (notApplicableToThisPlugin(context)) return cb([]);
  if (needsPremiumAccount(context.req) && !context.req.session.user.premium) {
    context.res.status(200).send(makeUpgradeToPremiumAccountPage(context.req));
    return cb([true]);
  }
  // Use the generic 403 forbidden response.
  return cb([]);
};

`handleMessage`

Called from: src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js

This hook allows plugins to drop or modify incoming socket.io messages from clients, before Etherpad processes them. If any hook function returns null then the message will not be subject to further processing.

Context properties:

message: The message being handled.
sessionInfo: Object describing the socket.io session with the following properties:
- authorId: The user's author ID.
- padId: The real (not read-only) ID of the pad.
- readOnly: Whether the client has read-only access (true) or read/write access (false).
socket: The socket.io Socket object.
client: (Deprecated; use socket instead.) Synonym of socket.

Example:

javascript

exports.handleMessage = async (hookName, {message, socket}) => {
  if (message.type === 'USERINFO_UPDATE') {
    // Force the display name to the name associated with the account.
    const user = socket.client.request.session.user || {};
    if (user.name) message.data.userInfo.name = user.name;
  }
};

`handleMessageSecurity`

Called from: src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js

Called for each incoming message from a client. Allows plugins to grant temporary write access to a pad.

Supported return values:

undefined: No change in access status.
'permitOnce': Override the user's read-only access for the current COLLABROOM message only. Has no effect if the current message is not a COLLABROOM message, or if the user already has write access to the pad.
true: (Deprecated; return 'permitOnce' instead.) Override the user's read-only access for all COLLABROOM messages from the same socket.io connection (including the current message, if applicable) until the client's next CLIENT_READY message. Has no effect if the user already has write access to the pad. Read-only access is reset after each CLIENT_READY message, so returning true has no effect for CLIENT_READY messages.

Context properties:

message: The message being handled.
sessionInfo: Object describing the socket.io connection with the following properties:
- authorId: The user's author ID.
- padId: The real (not read-only) ID of the pad.
- readOnly: Whether the client has read-only access (true) or read/write access (false).
socket: The socket.io Socket object.
client: (Deprecated; use socket instead.) Synonym of socket.

Example:

javascript

exports.handleMessageSecurity = async (hookName, context) => {
  const {message, sessionInfo: {readOnly}} = context;
  if (!readOnly || message.type !== 'COLLABROOM') return;
  if (await messageIsBenign(message)) return 'permitOnce';
};

clientVars

Called from: src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js

Things in context:

clientVars - the basic clientVars built by the core
pad - the pad this session is about
socket - the socket.io Socket object

This hook is called after a client connects but before the initial configuration is sent to the client. Plugins can use this hook to manipulate the configuration. (Example: Add a tracking ID for an external analytics tool that is used client-side.)

You can manipulate clientVars in two different ways:

Return an object. The object will be merged into clientVars via Object.assign(), so any keys that already exist in clientVars will be overwritten by the values in the returned object.
Modify context.clientVars. Beware: Other plugins might also be reading or manipulating the same context.clientVars object. To avoid race conditions, you are encouraged to return an object rather than modify context.clientVars.

If needed, you can access the user's account information (if authenticated) via context.socket.client.request.session.user.

Examples:

// Using an async function
exports.clientVars = async (hookName, context) => {
  const user = context.socket.client.request.session.user || {};
  return {'accountUsername': user.username || '<unknown>'}
};

// Using a regular function
exports.clientVars = (hookName, context, callback) => {
  const user = context.socket.client.request.session.user || {};
  return callback({'accountUsername': user.username || '<unknown>'});
};

`getLineHTMLForExport`

Called from: src/node/utils/ExportHtml.js

This hook will allow a plug-in developer to re-write each line when exporting to HTML.

Context properties:

apool: Pool object.
attribLine: Line attributes.
line:
lineContent:
text: Line text.
padId: Writable (not read-only) pad identifier.

Example:

javascript

const AttributeMap = require('ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/AttributeMap');
const Changeset = require('ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/Changeset');

exports.getLineHTMLForExport = async (hookName, context) => {
  if (!context.attribLine) return;
  const [op] = Changeset.deserializeOps(context.attribLine);
  if (op == null) return;
  const heading = AttributeMap.fromString(op.attribs, context.apool).get('heading');
  if (!heading) return;
  context.lineContent = `<${heading}>${context.lineContent}</${heading}>`;
};

exportHTMLAdditionalContent

Called from: src/node/utils/ExportHtml.js

Things in context:

padId

This hook will allow a plug-in developer to include additional HTML content in the body of the exported HTML.

Example:

exports.exportHTMLAdditionalContent = async (hookName, {padId}) => {
  return 'I am groot in ' + padId;
};

stylesForExport

Called from: src/node/utils/ExportHtml.js

Things in context:

padId - The Pad Id

This hook will allow a plug-in developer to append Styles to the Exported HTML.

Example:

exports.stylesForExport = function(hook, padId, cb){
  cb("body{font-size:13.37em !important}");
}

aceAttribClasses

Called from: src/static/js/linestylefilter.js

This hook is called when attributes are investigated on a line. It is useful if you want to add another attribute type or property type to a pad.

An attributes object is passed to the aceAttribClasses hook functions instead of the usual context object. A hook function can either modify this object directly or provide an object whose properties will be assigned to the attributes object.

Example:

exports.aceAttribClasses = (hookName, attrs, cb) => {
  return cb([{
    sub: 'tag:sub',
  }]);
};

exportFileName

Called from src/node/handler/ExportHandler.js

Things in context:

padId

This hook will allow a plug-in developer to modify the file name of an exported pad. This is useful if you want to export a pad under another name and/or hide the padId under export. Note that the doctype or file extension cannot be modified for security reasons.

Example:

exports.exportFileName = function(hook, padId, callback){
  callback("newFileName"+padId);
}

exportHtmlAdditionalTags

Called from src/node/utils/ExportHtml.js

Things in context:

Pad object

This hook will allow a plug-in developer to include more properties and attributes to support during HTML Export. If tags are stored as ['color', 'red'] on the attribute pool, use exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData instead. An Array should be returned.

Example:

// Add the props to be supported in export
exports.exportHtmlAdditionalTags = function(hook, pad, cb){
  var padId = pad.id;
  cb(["massive","jugs"]);
};

exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData

Called from src/node/utils/ExportHtml.js

Things in context:

Pad object

Identical to exportHtmlAdditionalTags, but for tags that are stored with a specific value (not simply true) on the attribute pool. For example ['color', 'red'], instead of ['bold', true]. This hook will allow a plug-in developer to include more properties and attributes to support during HTML Export. An Array of arrays should be returned. The exported HTML will contain tags like <span data-color="red"> for the content where attributes are ['color', 'red'].

Example:

// Add the props to be supported in export
exports.exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData = function(hook, pad, cb){
  var padId = pad.id;
  cb([["color", "red"], ["color", "blue"]]);
};

`exportEtherpadAdditionalContent`

Called from src/node/utils/ExportEtherpad.js and src/node/utils/ImportEtherpad.js.

Called when exporting to an .etherpad file or when importing from an .etherpad file. The hook function should return prefixes for pad-specific records that should be included in the export/import. On export, all ${prefix}:${padId} and ${prefix}:${padId}:* records are included in the generated .etherpad file. On import, all ${prefix}:${padId} and ${prefix}:${padId}:* records are loaded into the database.

Context properties: None.

Example:

// Add support for exporting comments metadata
exports.exportEtherpadAdditionalContent = () => ['comments'];

`exportEtherpad`

Called from src/node/utils/ExportEtherpad.js.

Called when exporting to an .etherpad file.

Context properties:

pad: The exported pad's Pad object.
data: JSONable output object. This is pre-populated with records from core Etherpad as well as pad-specific records with prefixes from the exportEtherpadAdditionalContent hook. Registered hook functions can modify this object (but not replace the object) to perform any desired transformations to the exported data (such as the inclusion of plugin-specific records). All registered hook functions are executed concurrently, so care should be taken to avoid race conditions with other plugins.
dstPadId: The pad ID that should be used when writing pad-specific records to data (instead of pad.id). This avoids leaking the writable pad ID when a user exports a read-only pad. This might be a dummy value; plugins should not assume that it is either the pad's real writable ID or its read-only ID.

`importEtherpad`

Called from src/node/utils/ImportEtherpad.js.

Called when importing from an .etherpad file.

Context properties:

pad: Temporary Pad object containing the pad's data read from the imported .etherpad file. The pad.db object is a temporary in-memory database whose records will be copied to the real database after they are validated (see the padCheck hook). Registered hook functions MUST NOT use the real database to access (read or write) pad-specific records; they MUST instead use pad.db. All registered hook functions are executed concurrently, so care should be taken to avoid race conditions with other plugins.
data: Raw JSONable object from the .etherpad file. This data must not be modified.
srcPadId: The pad ID used for the pad-specific information in data.

`import`

Called from: src/node/handler/ImportHandler.js

Called when a user submits a document for import, before the document is converted to HTML. The hook function should return a truthy value if the hook function elected to convert the document to HTML.

Context properties:

destFile: The destination HTML filename.
fileEnding: The lower-cased filename extension from srcFile with leading period (examples: '.docx', '.html', '.etherpad').
padId: The identifier of the destination pad.
srcFile: The document to convert.
ImportError: Subclass of Error that can be thrown to provide a specific error message to the user. The constructor's first argument must be a string matching one of the known error identifiers.

Example:

javascript

exports.import = async (hookName, {fileEnding, ImportError}) => {
  // Reject all *.etherpad imports with a permission denied message.
  if (fileEnding === '.etherpad') throw new ImportError('permission');
};

`userJoin`

Called from: src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js

Called after users have been notified that a new user has joined the pad.

Context properties:

authorId: The user's author identifier.
displayName: The user's display name.
padId: The real (not read-only) identifier of the pad the user joined. This MUST NOT be shared with any users that are connected with read-only access.
readOnly: Whether the user only has read-only access.
readOnlyPadId: The read-only identifier of the pad the user joined.
socket: The socket.io Socket object.

Example:

javascript

exports.userJoin = async (hookName, {authorId, displayName, padId}) => {
  console.log(`${authorId} (${displayName}) joined pad ${padId});
};

`userLeave`

Called from: src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js

Called when a user disconnects from a pad. This is useful if you want to perform certain actions after a pad has been edited.

Context properties:

authorId: The user's author ID.
padId: The pad's real (not read-only) identifier.
readOnly: If truthy, the user only has read-only access.
readOnlyPadId: The pad's read-only identifier.
socket: The socket.io Socket object.

Example:

javascript

exports.userLeave = async (hookName, {author, padId}) => {
  console.log(`${author} left pad ${padId}`);
};

`chatNewMessage`

Called from: src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js

Called when a user (or plugin) generates a new chat message, just before it is saved to the pad and relayed to all connected users.

Context properties:

message: The chat message object. Plugins can mutate this object to change the message text or add custom metadata to control how the message will be rendered by the chatNewMessage client-side hook. The message's authorId property can be trusted (the server overwrites any client-provided author ID value with the user's actual author ID before this hook runs).
padId: The pad's real (not read-only) identifier.
pad: The pad's Pad object.

Server-side hooks ​

loadSettings ​

shutdown ​

pluginUninstall ​

pluginInstall ​

init_<plugin name> ​

expressPreSession ​

expressConfigure ​

expressCreateServer ​

expressCloseServer ​

eejsBlock_<name> ​

padInitToolbar ​

onAccessCheck ​

getAuthorId ​

padCreate ​

padDefaultContent ​

padLoad ​

padUpdate ​

padCopy ​

padRemove ​

padCheck ​

socketio ​

preAuthorize ​

authorize ​

authenticate ​

authFailure ​

preAuthzFailure ​

authnFailure ​

authzFailure ​

handleMessage ​

handleMessageSecurity ​

clientVars ​

getLineHTMLForExport ​

exportHTMLAdditionalContent ​

stylesForExport ​

aceAttribClasses ​

exportFileName ​

exportHtmlAdditionalTags ​

exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData ​

exportEtherpadAdditionalContent ​

exportEtherpad ​

importEtherpad ​

import ​

userJoin ​

userLeave ​

chatNewMessage ​

Server-side hooks

loadSettings

shutdown

pluginUninstall

pluginInstall

`init_<plugin name>`

`expressPreSession`

`expressConfigure`

`expressCreateServer`

expressCloseServer

eejsBlock_`<name>`

padInitToolbar

onAccessCheck

`getAuthorId`

`padCreate`

`padDefaultContent`

`padLoad`

`padUpdate`

`padCopy`

`padRemove`

`padCheck`

socketio

`preAuthorize`

authorize

authenticate

authFailure

preAuthzFailure

authnFailure

authzFailure

`handleMessage`

`handleMessageSecurity`

clientVars

`getLineHTMLForExport`

exportHTMLAdditionalContent

stylesForExport

aceAttribClasses

exportFileName

exportHtmlAdditionalTags

exportHtmlAdditionalTagsWithData

`exportEtherpadAdditionalContent`

`exportEtherpad`

`importEtherpad`

`import`

`userJoin`

`userLeave`

`chatNewMessage`