Separate tag replacement functions

content.py

@@ -11,14 +11,35 @@ import time
 import commentjson
 from shutil import copyfile
 
-def replaceEmojiFromTags(content: str,tag,messageType: str) -> str:
+def replaceEmojiFromTags(content: str,tag: [],messageType: str) -> str:
     """Uses the tags to replace :emoji: with html image markup
     """
-    tagList=tag
+    for tagItem in tag:
-    if isinstance(tag, dict):
+        if not tagItem.get('type'):
-        tagList=tag.items()
+            continue
-        
+        if tagItem['type']!='Emoji':
-    for tagItem in tagList:
+            continue
+        if not tagItem.get('name'):
+            continue
+        if not tagItem.get('icon'):
+            continue
+        if not tagItem['icon'].get('url'):
+            continue
+        if tagItem['name'] not in content:
+            continue
+        htmlClass='emoji'
+        if messageType=='post header':
+            htmlClass='emojiheader'            
+        if messageType=='profile':
+            htmlClass='emojiprofile'
+        emojiHtml="<img src=\""+tagItem['icon']['url']+"\" alt=\""+tagItem['name'].replace(':','')+"\" align=\"middle\" class=\""+htmlClass+"\"/>"
+        content=content.replace(tagItem['name'],emojiHtml)
+    return content
+
+def replaceEmojiFromTagsDict(content: str,tag: {},messageType: str) -> str:
+    """Uses the tags dictionary to replace :emoji: with html image markup
+    """
+    for tagName,tagItem in tag.items():
         if not tagItem.get('type'):
             continue
         if tagItem['type']!='Emoji':

posts.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ from capabilities import getOcapFilename
 from capabilities import capabilitiesUpdate
 from media import attachMedia
 from content import addHtmlTags
-from content import replaceEmojiFromTags
+from content import replaceEmojiFromTagsDict
 from auth import createBasicAuthHeader
 from config import getConfigParam
 from blocking import isBlocked
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ def createPostBase(baseDir: str,nickname: str, domain: str, port: int, \
                     nickname,domain,content, \
                     mentionedRecipients, \
                     hashtagsDict)
-    content=replaceEmojiFromTags(content,hashtagsDict,'content')
+    content=replaceEmojiFromTagsDict(content,hashtagsDict,'content')
     
     statusNumber,published = getStatusNumber()
     postTo='https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public'