How to test your app with the upgraded TinyMCE 4 editor
We've been working on on upgrading TinyMCE from version 3 to version 4. The dark feature for the upgraded editor will be enabled by default in Confluence 6.14.0 and later.
If you have an app that interacts with the editor in any way, we strongly recommend you test your app with the upgraded editor as soon as possible.
Compatibility
Confluence 6.14 is fully backward compatible with the TinyMCE v3 API, and we don’t plan to break compatibility anytime soon. However we recommend using the TinyMCE 4 API wherever possible when you need to interact directly with the editor.
You can load editor resources in either the editor-v3 or editor-v4 context if you need something different from either of them. However we recommend you keep using the editor context as you did before, loading the same resources regardless of what version of the editor.
Does your app load the editor?
Does your app load the editor in its own views? If so, you will need to do the following.
Editor context
Load additional web-resource context: editor-v4 along with the existing editor.
For example, if you're using requireResourcesForContext('editor'), you should use requireResourcesForContext('editor-v4,editor');.
This only applies when frontend.editor.v4 is enabled. Technically, in v3 you should use requireResourcesForContext('editor-v3,editor');, but this will generally not be necessary. You can use the DarkFeaturesManager in java or the confluence/dark-features AMD module in JS to load either v3 or v4 based on the frontend.editor.v4 dark feature, to be ready for both. For example:
DarkFeaturesManager in Java
darkFeaturesManager.getDarkFeatures().isFeatureEnabled("frontend.editor.v4") // booleanconfluence/dark-features AMD module in JavaScript
require('confluence/dark-features').isEnabled("frontend.editor.v4") // booleanEditor tear down
If you also handle destroying the editor, make sure to use the mceRemoveEditor command:
// TinyMCE 4 API
tinymce.execCommand('mceRemoveEditor', true, 'wysiwygTextarea');
// TinyMCE 3 API
tinymce.execCommand('mceRemoveControl', true, 'wysiwygTextarea');Leverage TinyMCE 4.x API
Although the 3.x API is available using a polyfill TinyMCE plugin, we encourage you to use the newer API once v4 becomes the default. See www.tinymce.com/docs.
Testing with earlier Confluence versions
This information is only required for Confluence 6.14.0-m50 and earlier.
Manual testing
To test your app, spin up a normal Confluence instance (6.8 to 6.13), go to <confluence-url>/admin/darkfeatures.action, and add the dark feature frontend.editor.v4. Then, head to the editor and check that your app is working as expected.
Automated tests
For any automated tests, you can spin up Confluence with the V4 editor enabled by adding the following to the JVM args used to start Confluence: -Datlassian.darkfeature.frontend.editor.v4=true. For example:
<configuration>
...
<jvmArgs>-Datlassian.darkfeature.frontend.editor.v4=true</jvmArgs>
</configuration>With automated tests, we recommend continuing to run without the dark feature enabled, and add a copy of the build with the feature enabled so that you can test both versions until v4 becomes the default.
Reporting issues
If you encounter issues with your app in TinyMCE v4, please help us by doing some investigation into what is causing your app to break, then raise an EAP feedback ticket. You'll need to be logged in to jira.atlassian.com for this link to work.