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This is computed based on the location of src tag of this script. */ function getServerBaseName(withApp) { // Find the script tag which loaded this script. We have ensured that the script tag has id as 'pm-script'. var src = ''; if (PM_Config.PM_BasePath == "") { if (console) console.log("Unable to find the hostname and app name of amuselabs.com which will serve the puzzle. Contact support@amuselabs.com"); return ''; } src = PM_Config.PM_BasePath; // here src is of the form 'https://staging.amuselabs.com/pmm' // We need to extract base URL and the app name from this URL. For this create URL object from this string and extract the protocol, host and path name fields. var url = new URL(src); if (withApp) { // url.pathname is everything followed by staging.amuselabs.com. 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We ensure this in the calling function itself. // if set is null then we don't proceed. pageName is set to picker by default. puzzleEmbedParams is set to 'embed=1' by default. // puzzleEmbedParams can have multiple params separated by & so each of them should be encoded separately. var iframeURL = serverBaseName + '/' + iframeInfo.pageName + '?' + '&set=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.puzzleSet); // Now add the puzzleEmbedParams to the iframe url. new URLSearchParams(iframeInfo.puzzleEmbedParams).forEach(function (value, key) { iframeURL += '&' + key + '=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(value); }); // Now add other parameters which were passed explicity either by data-attribute in the div tag or by the parent page url. if (iframeInfo.pickerStyle != null && iframeInfo.pickerStyle !== '' && iframeInfo.pickerStyle !== '0') iframeURL += '&style=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.pickerStyle); if (iframeInfo.puzzleId != null && iframeInfo.puzzleId !== '') iframeURL += '&id=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.puzzleId); if (iframeInfo.src != null && iframeInfo.src !== '') iframeURL += '&src=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.src); if (iframeInfo.uid !== null && iframeInfo.uid !== '') iframeURL += '&uid=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.uid); if (iframeInfo.puzzlePlayId !== null && iframeInfo.puzzlePlayId !== '') iframeURL += '&playId=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.puzzlePlayId); // if parentPagePath is not null then add it to the iframe url as src parameter. This is required for the iframe to // construct social play URL correctly. if (iframeInfo.parentPagePath !== null && iframeInfo.parentPagePath !== '') iframeURL += '&src=' + fixedEncodeURIComponent(iframeInfo.parentPagePath); // append all the remaining params from parentPage url and their values to the iframe URL // Note that if any of these params in topURL were extracted to define puzzleId, src, uid and puzzlePlayId fields then they were already removed from the parentPageParams // to avoid them adding again in the url. 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