plot_schema.js

/**
* Copyright 2012-2018, Plotly, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
* LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
*/


'use strict';

var Registry = require('../registry');
var Lib = require('../lib');

var baseAttributes = require('../plots/attributes');
var baseLayoutAttributes = require('../plots/layout_attributes');
var frameAttributes = require('../plots/frame_attributes');
var animationAttributes = require('../plots/animation_attributes');

// polar attributes are not part of the Registry yet
var polarAreaAttrs = require('../plots/polar/legacy/area_attributes');
var polarAxisAttrs = require('../plots/polar/legacy/axis_attributes');

var editTypes = require('./edit_types');

var extendFlat = Lib.extendFlat;
var extendDeepAll = Lib.extendDeepAll;

var IS_SUBPLOT_OBJ = '_isSubplotObj';
var IS_LINKED_TO_ARRAY = '_isLinkedToArray';
var ARRAY_ATTR_REGEXPS = '_arrayAttrRegexps';
var DEPRECATED = '_deprecated';
var UNDERSCORE_ATTRS = [IS_SUBPLOT_OBJ, IS_LINKED_TO_ARRAY, ARRAY_ATTR_REGEXPS, DEPRECATED];

exports.IS_SUBPLOT_OBJ = IS_SUBPLOT_OBJ;
exports.IS_LINKED_TO_ARRAY = IS_LINKED_TO_ARRAY;
exports.DEPRECATED = DEPRECATED;
exports.UNDERSCORE_ATTRS = UNDERSCORE_ATTRS;

/** Outputs the full plotly.js plot schema
 *
 * @return {object}
 *  - defs
 *  - traces
 *  - layout
 *  - transforms
 *  - frames
 *  - animations
 *  - config (coming soon ...)
 */
exports.get = function() {
    var traces = {};

    Registry.allTypes.concat('area').forEach(function(type) {
        traces[type] = getTraceAttributes(type);
    });

    var transforms = {};

    Object.keys(Registry.transformsRegistry).forEach(function(type) {
        transforms[type] = getTransformAttributes(type);
    });

    return {
        defs: {
            valObjects: Lib.valObjectMeta,
            metaKeys: UNDERSCORE_ATTRS.concat(['description', 'role', 'editType', 'impliedEdits']),
            editType: {
                traces: editTypes.traces,
                layout: editTypes.layout
            },
            impliedEdits: {
                description: [
                    'Sometimes when an attribute is changed, other attributes',
                    'must be altered as well in order to achieve the intended',
                    'result. For example, when `range` is specified, it is',
                    'important to set `autorange` to `false` or the new `range`',
                    'value would be lost in the redraw. `impliedEdits` is the',
                    'mechanism to do this: `impliedEdits: {autorange: false}`.',
                    'Each key is a relative paths to the attribute string to',
                    'change, using *^* to ascend into the parent container,',
                    'for example `range[0]` has `impliedEdits: {*^autorange*: false}`.',
                    'A value of `undefined` means that the attribute will not be',
                    'changed, but its previous value should be recorded in case',
                    'we want to reverse this change later. For example, `autorange`',
                    'has `impliedEdits: {*range[0]*: undefined, *range[1]*:undefined}',
                    'because the range will likely be changed by redraw.'
                ].join(' ')
            }
        },

        traces: traces,
        layout: getLayoutAttributes(),

        transforms: transforms,

        frames: getFramesAttributes(),
        animation: formatAttributes(animationAttributes)
    };
};

/**
 * Crawl the attribute tree, recursively calling a callback function
 *
 * @param {object} attrs
 *  The node of the attribute tree (e.g. the root) from which recursion originates
 * @param {Function} callback
 *  A callback function with the signature:
 *          @callback callback
 *          @param {object} attr an attribute
 *          @param {String} attrName name string
 *          @param {object[]} attrs all the attributes
 *          @param {Number} level the recursion level, 0 at the root
 * @param {Number} [specifiedLevel]
 *  The level in the tree, in order to let the callback function detect descend or backtrack,
 *  typically unsupplied (implied 0), just used by the self-recursive call.
 *  The necessity arises because the tree traversal is not controlled by callback return values.
 *  The decision to not use callback return values for controlling tree pruning arose from
 *  the goal of keeping the crawler backwards compatible. Observe that one of the pruning conditions
 *  precedes the callback call.
 * @param {string} [attrString]
 *  the path to the current attribute, as an attribute string (ie 'marker.line')
 *  typically unsupplied, but you may supply it if you want to disambiguate which attrs tree you
 *  are starting from
 *
 * @return {object} transformOut
 *  copy of transformIn that contains attribute defaults
 */
exports.crawl = function(attrs, callback, specifiedLevel, attrString) {
    var level = specifiedLevel || 0;
    attrString = attrString || '';

    Object.keys(attrs).forEach(function(attrName) {
        var attr = attrs[attrName];

        if(UNDERSCORE_ATTRS.indexOf(attrName) !== -1) return;

        var fullAttrString = (attrString ? attrString + '.' : '') + attrName;
        callback(attr, attrName, attrs, level, fullAttrString);

        if(exports.isValObject(attr)) return;

        if(Lib.isPlainObject(attr) && attrName !== 'impliedEdits') {
            exports.crawl(attr, callback, level + 1, fullAttrString);
        }
    });
};

/** Is object a value object (or a container object)?
 *
 * @param {object} obj
 * @return {boolean}
 *  returns true for a valid value object and
 *  false for tree nodes in the attribute hierarchy
 */
exports.isValObject = function(obj) {
    return obj && obj.valType !== undefined;
};

/**
 * Find all data array attributes in a given trace object - including
 * `arrayOk` attributes.
 *
 * @param {object} trace
 *  full trace object that contains a reference to `_module.attributes`
 *
 * @return {array} arrayAttributes
 *  list of array attributes for the given trace
 */
exports.findArrayAttributes = function(trace) {
    var arrayAttributes = [];
    var stack = [];

    function callback(attr, attrName, attrs, level) {
        stack = stack.slice(0, level).concat([attrName]);

        var splittableAttr = (
            attr &&
            (attr.valType === 'data_array' || attr.arrayOk === true) &&
            !(stack[level - 1] === 'colorbar' && (attrName === 'ticktext' || attrName === 'tickvals'))
        );

        // Manually exclude 'colorbar.tickvals' and 'colorbar.ticktext' for now
        // which are declared as `valType: 'data_array'` but scale independently of
        // the coordinate arrays.
        //
        // Down the road, we might want to add a schema field (e.g `uncorrelatedArray: true`)
        // to distinguish attributes of the likes.

        if(!splittableAttr) return;

        var astr = toAttrString(stack);
        var val = Lib.nestedProperty(trace, astr).get();
        if(!Array.isArray(val)) return;

        arrayAttributes.push(astr);
    }

    function toAttrString(stack) {
        return stack.join('.');
    }

    exports.crawl(baseAttributes, callback);
    if(trace._module && trace._module.attributes) {
        exports.crawl(trace._module.attributes, callback);
    }

    if(trace.transforms) {
        var transforms = trace.transforms;

        for(var i = 0; i < transforms.length; i++) {
            var transform = transforms[i];
            var module = transform._module;

            if(module) {
                stack = ['transforms[' + i + ']'];

                exports.crawl(module.attributes, callback, 1);
            }
        }
    }

    // Look into the fullInput module attributes for array attributes
    // to make sure that 'custom' array attributes are detected.
    //
    // At the moment, we need this block to make sure that
    // ohlc and candlestick 'open', 'high', 'low', 'close' can be
    // used with filter and groupby transforms.
    if(trace._fullInput && trace._fullInput._module && trace._fullInput._module.attributes) {
        exports.crawl(trace._fullInput._module.attributes, callback);
        arrayAttributes = Lib.filterUnique(arrayAttributes);
    }

    return arrayAttributes;
};

/*
 * Find the valObject for one attribute in an existing trace
 *
 * @param {object} trace
 *  full trace object that contains a reference to `_module.attributes`
 * @param {object} parts
 *  an array of parts, like ['transforms', 1, 'value']
 *  typically from nestedProperty(...).parts
 *
 * @return {object|false}
 *  the valObject for this attribute, or the last found parent
 *  in some cases the innermost valObject will not exist, for example
 *  `valType: 'any'` attributes where we might set a part of the attribute.
 *  In that case, stop at the deepest valObject we *do* find.
 */
exports.getTraceValObject = function(trace, parts) {
    var head = parts[0];
    var i = 1; // index to start recursing from
    var moduleAttrs, valObject;

    if(head === 'transforms') {
        if(!Array.isArray(trace.transforms)) return false;
        var tNum = parts[1];
        if(!isIndex(tNum) || tNum >= trace.transforms.length) {
            return false;
        }
        moduleAttrs = (Registry.transformsRegistry[trace.transforms[tNum].type] || {}).attributes;
        valObject = moduleAttrs && moduleAttrs[parts[2]];
        i = 3; // start recursing only inside the transform
    }
    else if(trace.type === 'area') {
        valObject = polarAreaAttrs[head];
    }
    else {
        // first look in the module for this trace
        // components have already merged their trace attributes in here
        var _module = trace._module;
        if(!_module) _module = (Registry.modules[trace.type || baseAttributes.type.dflt] || {})._module;
        if(!_module) return false;

        moduleAttrs = _module.attributes;
        valObject = moduleAttrs && moduleAttrs[head];

        // then look in the subplot attributes
        if(!valObject) {
            var subplotModule = _module.basePlotModule;
            if(subplotModule && subplotModule.attributes) {
                valObject = subplotModule.attributes[head];
            }
        }

        // finally look in the global attributes
        if(!valObject) valObject = baseAttributes[head];
    }

    return recurseIntoValObject(valObject, parts, i);
};

/*
 * Find the valObject for one layout attribute
 *
 * @param {array} parts
 *  an array of parts, like ['annotations', 1, 'x']
 *  typically from nestedProperty(...).parts
 *
 * @return {object|false}
 *  the valObject for this attribute, or the last found parent
 *  in some cases the innermost valObject will not exist, for example
 *  `valType: 'any'` attributes where we might set a part of the attribute.
 *  In that case, stop at the deepest valObject we *do* find.
 */
exports.getLayoutValObject = function(fullLayout, parts) {
    var valObject = layoutHeadAttr(fullLayout, parts[0]);

    return recurseIntoValObject(valObject, parts, 1);
};

function layoutHeadAttr(fullLayout, head) {
    var i, key, _module, attributes;

    // look for attributes of the subplot types used on the plot
    var basePlotModules = fullLayout._basePlotModules;
    if(basePlotModules) {
        var out;
        for(i = 0; i < basePlotModules.length; i++) {
            _module = basePlotModules[i];
            if(_module.attrRegex && _module.attrRegex.test(head)) {
                // if a module defines overrides, these take precedence
                // initially this is to allow gl2d different editTypes from svg cartesian
                if(_module.layoutAttrOverrides) return _module.layoutAttrOverrides;

                // otherwise take the first attributes we find
                if(!out && _module.layoutAttributes) out = _module.layoutAttributes;
            }

            // a module can also override the behavior of base (and component) module layout attrs
            // again see gl2d for initial use case
            var baseOverrides = _module.baseLayoutAttrOverrides;
            if(baseOverrides && head in baseOverrides) return baseOverrides[head];
        }
        if(out) return out;
    }

    // look for layout attributes contributed by traces on the plot
    var modules = fullLayout._modules;
    if(modules) {
        for(i = 0; i < modules.length; i++) {
            attributes = modules[i].layoutAttributes;
            if(attributes && head in attributes) {
                return attributes[head];
            }
        }
    }

    /*
     * Next look in components.
     * Components that define a schema have already merged this into
     * base and subplot attribute defs, so ignore these.
     * Others (older style) all put all their attributes
     * inside a container matching the module `name`
     * eg `attributes` (array) or `legend` (object)
     */
    for(key in Registry.componentsRegistry) {
        _module = Registry.componentsRegistry[key];
        if(!_module.schema && (head === _module.name)) {
            return _module.layoutAttributes;
        }
    }

    if(head in baseLayoutAttributes) return baseLayoutAttributes[head];

    // Polar doesn't populate _modules or _basePlotModules
    // just fall back on these when the others fail
    if(head === 'radialaxis' || head === 'angularaxis') {
        return polarAxisAttrs[head];
    }
    return polarAxisAttrs.layout[head] || false;
}

function recurseIntoValObject(valObject, parts, i) {
    if(!valObject) return false;

    if(valObject._isLinkedToArray) {
        // skip array index, abort if we try to dive into an array without an index
        if(isIndex(parts[i])) i++;
        else if(i < parts.length) return false;
    }

    // now recurse as far as we can. Occasionally we have an attribute
    // setting an internal part below what's in the schema; just return
    // the innermost schema item we find.
    for(; i < parts.length; i++) {
        var newValObject = valObject[parts[i]];
        if(Lib.isPlainObject(newValObject)) valObject = newValObject;
        else break;

        if(i === parts.length - 1) break;

        if(valObject._isLinkedToArray) {
            i++;
            if(!isIndex(parts[i])) return false;
        }
        else if(valObject.valType === 'info_array') {
            i++;
            var index = parts[i];
            if(!isIndex(index)) return false;

            var items = valObject.items;
            if(Array.isArray(items)) {
                if(index >= items.length) return false;
                if(valObject.dimensions === 2) {
                    i++;
                    if(parts.length === i) return valObject;
                    var index2 = parts[i];
                    if(!isIndex(index2)) return false;
                    valObject = items[index][index2];
                }
                else valObject = items[index];
            }
            else {
                valObject = items;
            }
        }
    }

    return valObject;
}

function isIndex(val) {
    return val === Math.round(val) && val >= 0;
}

function getTraceAttributes(type) {
    var _module, basePlotModule;

    if(type === 'area') {
        _module = { attributes: polarAreaAttrs };
        basePlotModule = {};
    }
    else {
        _module = Registry.modules[type]._module,
        basePlotModule = _module.basePlotModule;
    }

    var attributes = {};

    // make 'type' the first attribute in the object
    attributes.type = null;

    // base attributes (same for all trace types)
    extendDeepAll(attributes, baseAttributes);

    // module attributes
    extendDeepAll(attributes, _module.attributes);

    // subplot attributes
    if(basePlotModule.attributes) {
        extendDeepAll(attributes, basePlotModule.attributes);
    }

    // 'type' gets overwritten by baseAttributes; reset it here
    attributes.type = type;

    var out = {
        meta: _module.meta || {},
        attributes: formatAttributes(attributes),
    };

    // trace-specific layout attributes
    if(_module.layoutAttributes) {
        var layoutAttributes = {};

        extendDeepAll(layoutAttributes, _module.layoutAttributes);
        out.layoutAttributes = formatAttributes(layoutAttributes);
    }

    return out;
}

function getLayoutAttributes() {
    var layoutAttributes = {};
    var key, _module;

    // global layout attributes
    extendDeepAll(layoutAttributes, baseLayoutAttributes);

    // add base plot module layout attributes
    for(key in Registry.subplotsRegistry) {
        _module = Registry.subplotsRegistry[key];

        if(!_module.layoutAttributes) continue;

        if(_module.name === 'cartesian') {
            handleBasePlotModule(layoutAttributes, _module, 'xaxis');
            handleBasePlotModule(layoutAttributes, _module, 'yaxis');
        }
        else {
            var astr = _module.attr === 'subplot' ? _module.name : _module.attr;

            handleBasePlotModule(layoutAttributes, _module, astr);
        }
    }

    // polar layout attributes
    layoutAttributes = assignPolarLayoutAttrs(layoutAttributes);

    // add registered components layout attributes
    for(key in Registry.componentsRegistry) {
        _module = Registry.componentsRegistry[key];
        var schema = _module.schema;

        /*
         * Components with defined schema have already been merged in at register time
         * but a few components define attributes that apply only to xaxis
         * not yaxis (rangeselector, rangeslider) - delete from y schema.
         * Note that the input attributes for xaxis/yaxis are the same object
         * so it's not possible to only add them to xaxis from the start.
         * If we ever have such asymmetry the other way, or anywhere else,
         * we will need to extend both this code and mergeComponentAttrsToSubplot
         * (which will not find yaxis only for example)
         */
        if(schema && (schema.subplots || schema.layout)) {
            var subplots = schema.subplots;
            if(subplots && subplots.xaxis && !subplots.yaxis) {
                for(var xkey in subplots.xaxis) delete layoutAttributes.yaxis[xkey];
            }
        }
        // older style without schema need to be explicitly merged in now
        else if(_module.layoutAttributes) {
            insertAttrs(layoutAttributes, _module.layoutAttributes, _module.name);
        }
    }

    return {
        layoutAttributes: formatAttributes(layoutAttributes)
    };
}

function getTransformAttributes(type) {
    var _module = Registry.transformsRegistry[type];
    var attributes = extendDeepAll({}, _module.attributes);

    // add registered components transform attributes
    Object.keys(Registry.componentsRegistry).forEach(function(k) {
        var _module = Registry.componentsRegistry[k];

        if(_module.schema && _module.schema.transforms && _module.schema.transforms[type]) {
            Object.keys(_module.schema.transforms[type]).forEach(function(v) {
                insertAttrs(attributes, _module.schema.transforms[type][v], v);
            });
        }
    });

    return {
        attributes: formatAttributes(attributes)
    };
}

function getFramesAttributes() {
    var attrs = {
        frames: Lib.extendDeepAll({}, frameAttributes)
    };

    formatAttributes(attrs);

    return attrs.frames;
}

function formatAttributes(attrs) {
    mergeValTypeAndRole(attrs);
    formatArrayContainers(attrs);

    return attrs;
}

function mergeValTypeAndRole(attrs) {

    function makeSrcAttr(attrName) {
        return {
            valType: 'string',
            role: 'info',
            description: [
                'Sets the source reference on plot.ly for ',
                attrName, '.'
            ].join(' '),
            editType: 'none'
        };
    }

    function callback(attr, attrName, attrs) {
        if(exports.isValObject(attr)) {
            if(attr.valType === 'data_array') {
                // all 'data_array' attrs have role 'data'
                attr.role = 'data';
                // all 'data_array' attrs have a corresponding 'src' attr
                attrs[attrName + 'src'] = makeSrcAttr(attrName);
            }
            else if(attr.arrayOk === true) {
                // all 'arrayOk' attrs have a corresponding 'src' attr
                attrs[attrName + 'src'] = makeSrcAttr(attrName);
            }
        }
        else if(Lib.isPlainObject(attr)) {
            // all attrs container objects get role 'object'
            attr.role = 'object';
        }
    }

    exports.crawl(attrs, callback);
}

function formatArrayContainers(attrs) {

    function callback(attr, attrName, attrs) {
        if(!attr) return;

        var itemName = attr[IS_LINKED_TO_ARRAY];

        if(!itemName) return;

        delete attr[IS_LINKED_TO_ARRAY];

        attrs[attrName] = { items: {} };
        attrs[attrName].items[itemName] = attr;
        attrs[attrName].role = 'object';
    }

    exports.crawl(attrs, callback);
}

function assignPolarLayoutAttrs(layoutAttributes) {
    extendFlat(layoutAttributes, {
        radialaxis: polarAxisAttrs.radialaxis,
        angularaxis: polarAxisAttrs.angularaxis
    });

    extendFlat(layoutAttributes, polarAxisAttrs.layout);

    return layoutAttributes;
}

function handleBasePlotModule(layoutAttributes, _module, astr) {
    var np = Lib.nestedProperty(layoutAttributes, astr),
        attrs = extendDeepAll({}, _module.layoutAttributes);

    attrs[IS_SUBPLOT_OBJ] = true;
    np.set(attrs);
}

function insertAttrs(baseAttrs, newAttrs, astr) {
    var np = Lib.nestedProperty(baseAttrs, astr);

    np.set(extendDeepAll(np.get() || {}, newAttrs));
}