Question about batch refreshing block content

[nosro]

Description
I am updating all blocks on a post programmatically. I am replacing certain patterns of text with link elements.

This is a sidebar plugin which has a button to trigger this manipulation.

I have successfully transformed the content via an "editPost" method. Along the lines of:

dispatch('core/editor').editPost({content: myNewContent);

This partially works. When I save the post manually and reload it, my new content appears. However, until I do that, the current editor version is not updated. If I make edits, those trample over the transformed "content" value I had set.

I have tried dispatching the "refreshPost" action, but that does not seem to do it. It seems to me that some cached value is not being cleared and refreshed.

Gutenberg Version 4.6.1

[mkania]

I was having the same issue and "solved" it by doing this, which is essentially generating a new set of blocks from our modified content and replacing the existing blocks with our new blocks, which updates the editor interface appropriately:

var blocks = wp.blocks.pasteHandler( { HTML: myNewContent, mode: 'BLOCKS' } ); wp.data.dispatch('core/editor').resetBlocks(blocks);

Not sure if that's the ideal or correct way to do it, but it served my purposes at least.

[nosro]

@mkania Thank you for that tip. It led me to a good solution. I can offer a slight variation on your technique. Instead of using the wp.blocks.pasteHandler I am taking my current post content, modifying it as I wish, then re-parsing the blocks, like this:

const newContent = wp.data.select('core/editor').getEditedPostAttribute('content');

... [manipulate content string as you please ]...

const blocks = wp.blocks.parse(newContent);

wp.data.dispatch('core/editor').resetBlocks(blocks);