Modified Announcements class to take in formatted and raw text

Package.swift

@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ let package = Package(
 		.package(
 			url: "https://github.com/vincentneo/CoreGPX.git",
 			from: "0.9.2"
+		),
+		.package(
+			url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-markdown.git", 
+			branch: "main"
 		)
 	],
 	targets: [
@@ -108,6 +112,10 @@ let package = Package(
 				.product(
 					name: "Turf",
 					package: "turf-swift"
+				),
+				.product(
+					name: "Markdown",
+					package: "swift-markdown"
 				)
 			]
 		),

Sources/App/MarkDownTextExtractor.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import Markdown
+
+struct MarkdownTextExtractor: MarkupWalker {
+
+    private(set) var rawText = ""
+
+    mutating func visitText(_ text: Text) {
+        rawText.append(text.plainText)
+    }
+
+}

Sources/App/Models/Announcement.swift

@@ -113,7 +113,27 @@ final class Announcement: VersionedModel, Content {
 		}
 	}
 
-	init() { }
+	// Announcement object initializer
+    init{} (
+        id: UUID?,
+        subject: String,
+        body: String,
+        start: String,
+        end: String,
+        scheduleType: ScheduleType,
+        interruptionLevel: InterruptionLevel,
+        signature: Data 
+    ) {
+        self.id = id
+        self.subject = subject
+        self.body = body
+        self.start = start
+        self.end = end
+        self.scheduleType = scheduleType
+        self.interruptionLevel = interruptionLevel
+        self.signature = signature
+    }
+
 
 }
 

Sources/App/routes.swift

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import Algorithms
 import APNSCore
 import Fluent
+import Markdown
 import UAParserSwift
 import Vapor
 import VaporAPNS
@@ -140,13 +141,38 @@ func routes(_ application: Application) throws {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Get the current announcements
-	application.get("announcements") { (request) in
-		return try await Announcement
-			.query(on: request.db(.psql))
-			.all()
-	}
-
+	// Get the current announcements with formatting
+    application.get("announcements", "formatted") { (request) in
+        return try await Announcement
+            .query(on: request.db(.psql))
+            .all()
+    }
+
+    //Get the current announcements in raw text format
+    application.get("announcements") { (request) in 
+        let announcementList = try await Announcement
+            .query(on: request db(.psql))
+            .all()
+		//strips markdown formatting from each announcement
+		for oldAnnouncement in announcementList {
+			let document = Document(parsing: oldAnnouncement.body)
+			//print(document.debugDescription())
+			var extractor = MarkdownTextExtractor()
+			extractor.visit(document)
+			//print(extractor.rawText)
+			var newAnnouncement = Announcement(
+				oldAnnouncement.id, 
+				oldAnnouncement.subject, 
+				extractor.rawText, 
+				oldAnnouncement.start
+				oldAnnouncement.end,
+				oldAnnouncement.scheduleType,
+				oldAnnouncement.interruptionLevel,
+				oldAnnouncement.signature
+			)	
+		}
+    }
+
 	// Post a new announcement after verifying the request
 	application.post("announcements") { (request) -> Announcement in
 		let announcement = try request.content.decode(Announcement.self, using: decoder)