embedded mode: Save as uncompressed XML

[Thiya]

Hello together,

I'm embedding draw.io to my own application and i need the diagramm to be saved as uncompressed XML.
I'm developing my application according to this example: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-html5 (local Storage) but i need the Diagramm to be saved on my Server and not embedded as PNG.

All in all i got everything together, but i'm only able to get the Datas as compressed XML. I'm using this:
source.drawIoWindow.postMessage(JSON.stringify({action: 'export', format: 'xml', spinKey: 'saving'}), '*');

Is it supported to have uncompressed XML. And if yes, how can I adjust the line above to get uncompressed XML.

Thanks for every help :)

[Gaudenz Alder]

No, uncompressed XML is not supported.

[Zachary Beyer]

Were you ever able to accomplish something similar to this? 
I am interested in finding a solution to embedding the plain XML as an image so that I no longer need to export as an SVG to present diagrams in HTML (my query might not be related to yours—it's unclear).

[Gaudenz Alder]

Have you tried savibg the file with an .svg suffix?

[Marco Azzalini]

Hi Gaudenz, 

I am also trying to embed draw.io in my own webapp and to accomplish it I am following this tutorial:  Simple draw.io embedding walk-through (https://support.draw.io/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8945851)

At the moment I am trying to read the (plain) xml sent back from editor when my user press Save button but I got always an image:  (data:image/svg+xml;base64,...)
Are you really telling us that there is no way to have the same behavior as  File|Export|Xml   command? 

If so, how can I integrate draw.io in my application, saving in my DB the xml graph as modified by the user?

Is it possible to export in other formats:compressed xml or similar ? If so, do I need to decompress it before loading? If so, how?

Please, let me know... I am stuck on this :-(

thank you very much

Best regards,

Marco

[David Benson]

Use format: 'xml' and inflate the result?

[Marco Azzalini]

Hi David, thank you for you reply.

Sorry, I am not a Javascript expert so probably I didn't catch your suggestion... I am already using xml as format with this POST

if (msg.event == 'save')

    postMessage(JSON.stringify({action: 'export', format: 'xml', spinKey: 'saving'}), '*');

but I receive an image, not xml. Do you mean that inside the image there is also the xml graph description? If so, how can I extract it

Can you detail me a little bit your idea?

thanks in advance,

MArco 

[Marco Azzalini]

Hi David, could you give me some more details in how to get back diagram's xml from draw.io in embeded mode? Is it possible? 

thanks in advance,

Marco

[David Benson]

I'm on holiday, I don't have time to create a complete example. If you create a complete example using something like codepen, it would be much quicker to debug.

[Marco Azzalini]

Hi David. Thanks but  I don't need a complete working example. It would be sufficient to understand how to deal with the xml data coming from a 'save' message from embedded draw.io.

It is in the form <diagram id="1-2-3" name="Page-1">very-long-string</diagram>

I don't know what there is inside the 'very-long-string' ? Is it a base64/compressed/whatever version of my graph's xml? If so, is there a way to decode/inflate/whatever it and have back the graph's xml rappresentation:

<mxGraphModel dx="1038" dy="514" grid="1" gridSize="10" guides  ........... /></mxGraphModel>

to save it into my DB?

Thanks in advance,

Marco

[Gaudenz Alder]

See the code for the decode button in https://jgraph.github.io/drawio-tools/tools/convert.html

[Marco Azzalini]

Thanks Gaudenz!  This is VERY interesting and helpful !

MArco