Add exclude list (#83)

Author: msridhar

ui/index.html

@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ <h1 id="title">PC-Miner</h1>
   <td>
   <div id="wordCloud" style="width: 400px; height: 175px; margin-left: 10%;"></div>
   </td>
+      <td>
+          <div style="margin-left: 120px;">
+              <label for="excludeTextBox">Exclude list:</label><br>
+              <textarea id="excludeTextBox" rows="10" cols="40" style="font-family: Arial;"></textarea><br>
+              <button onclick="pcminer.updateExcluded(document.getElementById('excludeTextBox').value)">Update</button>
+          </div>
+      </td>
   </tr>
   </table>
 

ui/js/code.js

@@ -406,8 +406,8 @@ var pcminer = (function () {
       '<span float="left">' + nrC + " committee records selected</span>";
   }
 
-  // Updated decodeHtml function using DOMParser
   function decodeHtml(html) {
+    html = html.replace("&oslash;", "o");
     const parser = new DOMParser();
     const doc = parser.parseFromString(html, "text/html");
     return doc.documentElement.textContent;
@@ -427,7 +427,6 @@ var pcminer = (function () {
 
   function nameStartsWith(fullName, prefix) {
     // Decode HTML entities (e.g. converting "&oslash;" into "ø").
-    fullName = fullName.replace("&oslash;", "o");
     const decodedFullName = decodeHtml(fullName);
 
     // Split the decoded name into words and filter out any empty strings.
@@ -461,11 +460,15 @@ var pcminer = (function () {
     clip.append("<p>");
     for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
       var x = list[i];
-      if (nameFilter == "" || nameStartsWith(x.author, nameFilter)) {
+      const author = x.author;
+      if (
+        (nameFilter == "" || nameStartsWith(author, nameFilter)) &&
+        !excluded.has(normalizeString(decodeHtml(author)))
+      ) {
         if (nrPublicationsAndCommittees(x) > 0 && eval(conditionFilter)) {
           // evil call to eval()
-          selector.append("<option>" + x.author + "</option>");
-          clip.append(x.author + ","); //REJ
+          selector.append("<option>" + author + "</option>");
+          clip.append(author + ","); //REJ
           for (var j = 0; j < x.committees.length; j++) {
             clip.append(
               x.committees[j].conference.series +
@@ -694,6 +697,14 @@ var pcminer = (function () {
     }
   }
 
+  var excluded = new Set();
+
+  function updateExcluded(input) {
+    const excludedList = input.split("\n").map(normalizeString);
+    excluded = new Set(excludedList);
+    resetSelector();
+  }
+
   function encodeForUrl(input) {
     // Decode HTML entities first
     const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(input, "text/html");
@@ -934,6 +945,7 @@ var pcminer = (function () {
     confSelected: confSelected,
     confsSelected: confsSelected,
     copyToClipboard: copyToClipboard,
+    updateExcluded: updateExcluded,
     main: main,
   };
 })();