Question

I’m implementing a .net web forms spell checker in one of our applications.
This application is only run internally and the clients do not have access to the internet so I cannot use an online spell checker like google’s.

I came across many posts on SO that advocate using NetSpell. However I’ve been unable to figure out how to hook it up to a text editor like tiny mce.

Is there an example somewhere that I can follow?
Is there an easier way to get spell checker working?

Answer 1

Ok here is what I found out.

TinyMCE has two commands that it uses to perform a spellcheck.
These commands are sent in json format and have the same syntax.

In my usage I have to use a specific phonetic spellcheck routine. So I parse the json request call my spellcheck and then generate a json response.

POST
id – string id, generated by tinyMCE
method – either the string “checkWords” or “getSuggestions”
params – an object array, for checkWords it is (<string>, <stringarray>) for getSuggestions it is (<string>, <string>)

Expected Response
result – a string array
id – the same id from the post
error – An error message I’m assuming, I always just return null.

Example usage

Post  
{"id":"c0","method":"checkWords","params":["en",["This","is","a","sentancce","woth","speeling","missteaks"]]}

Expected Response
{"result":["sentancce","woth","speeling","missteaks"],"id":"c0","error":null}

Post
{"id":"c0","method":"getSuggestions","params":["en","sentancce"]}

Expected Response
{"result":["sentence","sentenced","sentences","sentience"],"id":"c0","error":null}