From 53867caae83e5fe0b11c11489ed56cf8f96ad4fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Devin Howard <devin@callysto.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:20:49 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] allow JSON or TSV parsing

---
 app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.Import.js.erb | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.Import.js.erb b/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.Import.js.erb
index 92c9566d..bfce14bd 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.Import.js.erb
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/src/Metamaps.Import.js.erb
@@ -37,7 +37,16 @@ Metamaps.Import = {
     $('body').bind('paste', function(e) {
       var text = e.originalEvent.clipboardData.getData('text/plain');
 
-      var results = self.parseTabbedString(text);
+      var results;
+      if (text[0] === '{') {
+        try {
+          results = JSON.parse(text);
+        } catch (Error e) {
+          results = false;
+        }
+      } else {
+        results = self.parseTabbedString(text);
+      }
       if (results === false) return;
 
       var topics = results.topics;