changed links from being a computed field on documents to being accessed by a function call on LinkManager

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts b/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts
index 46d44fea4..555215417 100644
--- a/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { DirectLinksSym, Doc, DocListCast, DocListCastAsync, Field, Opt } from '
 import { List } from '../../fields/List';
 import { ProxyField } from '../../fields/Proxy';
 import { Cast, DocCast, PromiseValue, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
+import { ScriptingGlobals } from './ScriptingGlobals';
 /*
  * link doc:
  * - anchor1: doc
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ export class LinkManager {
     public static get Instance() {
         return LinkManager._instance;
     }
+
+    public static Links(doc: Doc | undefined) {
+        return doc ? LinkManager.Instance.getAllRelatedLinks(doc) : [];
+    }
     public static addLinkDB = async (linkDb: any) => {
         await Promise.all(
             ((await DocListCastAsync(linkDb.data)) ?? []).map(link =>
@@ -34,7 +39,7 @@ export class LinkManager {
         LinkManager.userLinkDBs.push(linkDb);
     };
     public static AutoKeywords = 'keywords:Usages';
-    static links: Doc[] = [];
+    static _links: Doc[] = [];
     constructor() {
         LinkManager._instance = this;
         this.createLinkrelationshipLists();
@@ -72,7 +77,7 @@ export class LinkManager {
             );
         };
         const watchUserLinkDB = (userLinkDBDoc: Doc) => {
-            LinkManager.links.push(...DocListCast(userLinkDBDoc.data));
+            LinkManager._links.push(...DocListCast(userLinkDBDoc.data));
             const toRealField = (field: Field) => (field instanceof ProxyField ? field.value : field); // see List.ts.  data structure is not a simple list of Docs, but a list of ProxyField/Fields
             if (userLinkDBDoc.data) {
                 observe(
@@ -193,3 +198,11 @@ export class LinkManager {
         if (Doc.AreProtosEqual(anchor, linkDoc)) return linkDoc;
     }
 }
+
+ScriptingGlobals.add(
+    function links(doc: any) {
+        return new List(LinkManager.Links(doc));
+    },
+    'returns all the links to the document or its annotations',
+    '(doc: any)'
+);