make the bot work with rst files

[12rambau]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I use the following json file to pilot he all-contributor bot :

{
  "files": [
    "AUTHORS.rst"
  ],
  "imageSize": 100,
  "contributorsPerLine": 7,
  "contributorsSortAlphabetically": false,
  "badgeTemplate":  "<img src=\"https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-<%= contributors.length %>-orange.svg?style=flat-square\" alt=\"All contributors\">",
  "contributorTemplate": "<a href = \"<%= contributor.profile %>\"><img src=\"<%= contributor.avatar_url %>\" width=\"<%= options.imageSize %>px;\" alt=\"\"/><br /><sub><b><%= contributor.name %></b></sub></a>",
  "skipCi": true,
  "contributors": [
    {
      "login": "12rambau",
      "name": "Rambaud Pierrick",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12596392?v=4",
      "profile": "https://12rambau.github.io/web-resume/",
      "contributions": [
        "code",
        "ideas",
        "question",
        "doc",
        "maintenance",
        "review"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projectName": "sepal-doc",
  "projectOwner": "openforis",
  "repoType": "github",
  "repoHost": "https://github.com"
}

and I created the following AUTHOR.rst file to specify the placement of the final table elements :

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (`emoji key <https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key>`_):

.. raw:: html
 
    <a href="https://github.com/openforis/sepal-doc/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst">
        <!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-BADGE:START - Do not remove or modify this section -->
        <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-1-orange.svg?style=flat-square" alt="All contributors">
        <!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-BADGE:END -->
    </a>

.. raw:: html

    <!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:START - Do not remove or modify this section -->
    <!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
    <!-- markdownlint-disable -->
    <table>
    <tr>
       <td align="center"><a href = "https://12rambau.github.io/web-resume/"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12596392?v=4" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Rambaud Pierrick</b></sub></a></td>
    </tr>
    </table>

    <!-- markdownlint-restore -->
    <!-- prettier-ignore-end -->

    <!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:END -->

This project follows the `all-contributors <https://allcontributors.org>`_ specification.
Contributions of any kind are welcome!

But when I launch the bot, the indentation change and the file is broken. In short, .rst files are snesible to indentation inside the raw directive and the bot is always rewritting from to very left without identation ending up breaking the rst file.

Describe the solution you'd like
So the problem is indentation, and it would be nothing to change :

in the CLI tools (https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors-cli/blob/e9c1f55beb2c18391a5d5f0c9e8243dc3f89ebe3/src/generate/index.js#L7) we parse the text and search for the starting point of the table.
To be working with RST, the code should detect the indentation of this message (<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:) and apply it to every line it write afterward. By doing so the .rst users should only right down the "tag" with the correct indentation for the tool to work.

I'm not good at java and I open a SO question on this very matter : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67069748/how-to-get-the-indent-of-a-searched-item-in-javascript so if anyone can show me ow I think I could make a PR.

Additional context
I don't know if I should post this issue here or in the all-contributor CLI as I don't knwo if the two of them are linked in any way. Feel free to move my issue from here to there if this is more appropriate.

It is the exact same problem (and solution) for the badge.

[Berkmann18]

I'm aware you may not be good in JavaScript (which I assumed is what you meant instead of Java) so I'm wondering if you have pseudo code / Python implementation of the solution you have in mind (given that you seem to know how to resolve this issue)?
If so, you could write it here and someone could convert it to JS (unless you'll rather do that, even with someone's help).

[12rambau]

So assuming that the variable previousContent is the full extend of the file in 1 single string, I should be able to split it with \n so In python I'll do sometiong like :

# get the indetation of the tag 

tagToLookFor = `<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:`

# split the previous content with `\n` character 
split_content = previousContent.split('\n')

for l in split_content:
    if tagToLookFor in l:
        indent = ' '*(len(l) - len(l.lstrip()))
        break

# now i can start every line written by the tool with indent

[12rambau]

any news ?

[Berkmann18]

I saw your PR, I was going to have a proper look but had a lot of things thrown my way and didn't get the chance to do that. I'll try to look into it ASAP.

[12rambau]

Thnaks a lot and take your time, I just wanted to make sure that the project was still maintained ;-)

[12rambau]

@tenshiAMD it is still not working, as suggested in #301, I used the bot in one of my repository and the bot deindented the file making it incompatible with .rst

https://github.com/openforis/sepal-doc/pull/230/files

Could you please reopen this issue ?

[tenshiAMD]

@12rambau looks like there are also issues in configuration and some lines, check my forked repo https://github.com/tenshiAMD/sepal-doc/blob/main/AUTHORS.rst

The only missing here is detecting if the file type is RST then add a tab at beginning of each lines

[12rambau]

why not add the tab for all file type? It's harmless for .md and compulsory for .rst

[tenshiAMD]

why not add the tab for all file type? It's harmless for .md and compulsory for .rst

@12rambau is not that easy since most of the contents are injected. I think I need to change the implementation somehow. I made a rough fix in this branch and it's working now. I just need to clean things up.