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Merge branch 'develop' into ClipboardPaste
Pratheek555 Mar 21, 2026
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions packages/react/src/hooks/useDropBox.js
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Expand Up @@ -15,10 +15,16 @@ const useDropBox = () => {
setData(e.dataTransfer.files[0]);
};

const handlePaste = (file) => {
toggle();
setData(file);
};

return {
data,
handleDrag,
handleDragDrop,
handlePaste,
};
};

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37 changes: 37 additions & 0 deletions packages/react/src/views/ChatInput/ChatInput.js
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Expand Up @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import useSearchMentionUser from '../../hooks/useSearchMentionUser';
import useSearchEmoji from '../../hooks/useSearchEmoji';
import formatSelection from '../../lib/formatSelection';
import { parseEmoji } from '../../lib/emoji';
import useDropBox from '../../hooks/useDropBox';

const ChatInput = ({ scrollToBottom, clearUnreadDividerRef }) => {
const { styleOverrides, classNames } = useComponentOverrides('ChatInput');
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ const ChatInput = ({ scrollToBottom, clearUnreadDividerRef }) => {
setShowMembersList
);

const { handlePaste } = useDropBox();
const searchEmoji = useSearchEmoji(
startReadEmoji,
setStartReadEmoji,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -463,6 +465,40 @@ const ChatInput = ({ scrollToBottom, clearUnreadDividerRef }) => {
}
};

const handlePasting = (event) => {
const { clipboardData } = event;

if (!clipboardData) {
return;
}

const items = Array.from(clipboardData.items);
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This looks good, isn't there a well known and lightweight library to handle this, as we may miss some cases

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You can take it as part of separate PR

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Sure will look into it as a part of another PR.

Thank you for taking your time to review the PR :)

if (
items.some(({ kind, type }) => kind === 'string' && type === 'text/plain')
) {
return;
}

const files = items
.filter(
(item) => item.kind === 'file' && item.type.indexOf('image/') !== -1
)
.map((item) => {
const fileItem = item.getAsFile();

if (!fileItem) {
return;
}
return fileItem;
})
.filter((file) => !!file);

if (files.length) {
event.preventDefault();
handlePaste(files[0]);
}
};

const onKeyDown = (e) => {
switch (true) {
case e.ctrlKey && e.code === 'KeyI': {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -666,6 +702,7 @@ const ChatInput = ({ scrollToBottom, clearUnreadDividerRef }) => {
}}
onFocus={handleFocus}
onKeyDown={onKeyDown}
onPaste={handlePasting}
ref={messageRef}
/>

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