Merge captions setText and setCue into updateCues (fixes #998 and vimeo cuechange event)

src/js/captions.js

@@ -110,23 +110,16 @@ const captions = {
         if (this.isHTML5 && this.isVideo) {
             captions.getTracks.call(this).forEach(track => {
                 // Show track
-                utils.on(track, 'cuechange', event => captions.setCue.call(this, event));
+                utils.on(track, 'cuechange', () => captions.updateCues.call(this));
 
                 // Turn off native caption rendering to avoid double captions
                 // eslint-disable-next-line
                 track.mode = 'hidden';
             });
 
-            // Get current track
-            const currentTrack = captions.getCurrentTrack.call(this);
-
-            // Check if suported kind
-            if (utils.is.track(currentTrack)) {
             // If we change the active track while a cue is already displayed we need to update it
-                if (Array.from(currentTrack.activeCues || []).length) {
-                    captions.setCue.call(this, currentTrack);
-                }
-            }
+            captions.updateCues.call(this);
+
         } else if (this.isVimeo && this.captions.active) {
             this.embed.enableTextTrack(this.language);
         }
@@ -193,56 +186,48 @@ const captions = {
         return i18n.get('disabled', this.config);
     },
 
-    // Display active caption if it contains text
-    setCue(input) {
-        // Get the track from the event if needed
-        const track = utils.is.event(input) ? input.target : input;
-        const { activeCues } = track;
-        const active = activeCues.length && activeCues[0];
-        const currentTrack = captions.getCurrentTrack.call(this);
-
-        // Only display current track
-        if (track !== currentTrack) {
-            return;
-        }
-
-        // Display a cue, if there is one
-        if (utils.is.cue(active)) {
-            captions.setText.call(this, active.getCueAsHTML());
-        } else {
-            captions.setText.call(this, null);
-        }
-
-        utils.dispatchEvent.call(this, this.media, 'cuechange');
-    },
-
-    // Set the current caption
-    setText(input) {
+    // Update captions using current track's active cues
+    // Also optional array argument in case there isn't any track (ex: vimeo)
+    updateCues(input) {
         // Requires UI
         if (!this.supported.ui) {
             return;
         }
 
-        if (utils.is.element(this.elements.captions)) {
-            const content = utils.createElement('span');
+        if (!utils.is.element(this.elements.captions)) {
+            this.debug.warn('No captions element to render to');
+            return;
+        }
 
-            // Empty the container
-            utils.emptyElement(this.elements.captions);
+        // Only accept array or empty input
+        if (!utils.is.nullOrUndefined(input) && !Array.isArray(input)) {
+            this.debug.warn('updateCues: Invalid input', input);
+            return;
+        }
 
-            // Default to empty
-            const caption = !utils.is.nullOrUndefined(input) ? input : '';
+        let cues = input;
 
-            // Set the span content
-            if (utils.is.string(caption)) {
-                content.innerText = caption.trim();
-            } else {
-                content.appendChild(caption);
+        // Get cues from track
+        if (!cues) {
+            const track = captions.getCurrentTrack.call(this);
+            cues = Array.from((track || {}).activeCues || [])
+                .map(cue => cue.getCueAsHTML())
+                .map(utils.getHTML);
         }
 
         // Set new caption text
-            this.elements.captions.appendChild(content);
-        } else {
-            this.debug.warn('No captions element to render to');
+        const content = cues.map(cueText => cueText.trim()).join('\n');
+        const changed = content !== this.elements.captions.innerHTML;
+
+        if (changed) {
+            // Empty the container and create a new child element
+            utils.emptyElement(this.elements.captions);
+            const caption = utils.createElement('span');
+            caption.innerHTML = content;
+            this.elements.captions.appendChild(caption);
+
+            // Trigger event
+            utils.dispatchEvent.call(this, this.media, 'cuechange');
         }
     },
 };

src/js/plugins/vimeo.js

@@ -301,14 +301,9 @@ const vimeo = {
             captions.setup.call(player);
         });
 
-        player.embed.on('cuechange', data => {
-            let cue = null;
-
-            if (data.cues.length) {
-                cue = utils.stripHTML(data.cues[0].text);
-            }
-
-            captions.setText.call(player, cue);
+        player.embed.on('cuechange', ({ cues = [] }) => {
+            const strippedCues = cues.map(cue => utils.stripHTML(cue.text));
+            captions.updateCues.call(player, strippedCues);
         });
 
         player.embed.on('loaded', () => {

src/js/plyr.js

@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ class Plyr {
         this.captions.language = language;
 
         // Clear caption
-        captions.setText.call(this, null);
+        captions.updateCues.call(this, []);
 
         // Update captions
         captions.setLanguage.call(this);

src/js/utils.js

@@ -833,6 +833,13 @@ const utils = {
         return fragment.firstChild.innerText;
     },
 
+    // Like outerHTML, but also works for DocumentFragment
+    getHTML(element) {
+        const wrapper = document.createElement('div');
+        wrapper.appendChild(element);
+        return wrapper.innerHTML;
+    },
+
     // Get aspect ratio for dimensions
     getAspectRatio(width, height) {
         const getRatio = (w, h) => (h === 0 ? w : getRatio(h, w % h));