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Allow custom geoJson description function #3140

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Some of our data sources have terse keys in their descriptions, which we would like to make more readable for our users (eg. at a minimum, by stripping out underscores).

To make this easier, I changed GeoJsonDataSource so we can customize how it wraps the properties up into an html description. The default behavior remains the same, but when calling load, you can specify the custom describe function in the options.

kring added 30 commits June 5, 2014 17:57
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It tells us what triangle was picked, not just what position within the
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pjcozzi commented Oct 28, 2015

Thanks for the contribution. Can you add yourself to CONTRIBUTORS.md under NICTA?

@mramato is the best person to review. Bear with us as we're finishing up the 1.15 release for next week.

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Great, thanks @pjcozzi!

kring added 4 commits November 3, 2015 10:49
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@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ define([

var description = properties.description;
if (!defined(description)) {
entity.description = new CallbackProperty(createDescriptionCallback(properties, nameProperty), true);
entity.description = new CallbackProperty(createDescriptionCallback(describe, properties, nameProperty), true);
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Would it be better to have the provided describe return a Property instance and be called instead of creating a CallbackProperty every time? It's almost the same as you have now, but I think it would be more flexible. For example, the way this is currently set up, there's no good way (as far as I can tell) to supply an asynchronous describe function, but if you could return a custom property, that would be easy. What do you think?

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Yes, that sounds more flexible - you could even gain flexibility over the nameProperty calculation then too.

I could change line 192 to read something like (with appropriate checks and balances):

entity.description = options.describeProperty(properties, nameProperty)

Then the user would define their custom describe function, and call load with options.describeProperty =

function(properties, nameProperty) {
    return new CallbackProperty(createDescriptionCallback(describe, properties, nameProperty), true);
}

Have I understood you right?

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Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. Also, due to the automatic wrapping/coercion we do for simple types, they can also return a single string back instead of a Property instance and everything will still work.

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mramato commented Nov 3, 2015

Just those couple comments and that one question.

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I've made these changes now.

Allow custom geoJson description function
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kring commented Nov 5, 2015

Well I have no idea how to use Git and have made a mess of this pull request while trying to merge it into our fork. So @RacingTadpole opened a new, equivalent one, referenced above. Sorry guys!

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