Net_explorer

NetExplorer.views.pages.net_explorer.net_explorer(request)

NetExplorer application view.

Accepts:

• GET: For visiting the page.

• GET + AJAX: For adding nodes to visualization.

• POST: For uploading a graph in JSON format.

Response:

• GET:

  • experiments (list of oldExperiment): List of Experiments available in PlanNET.

  • databases (list of Dataset): List of datasets to which user has access to.

• GET + AJAX:

  • `str`: JSON string resulting from GraphCytoscape’s to_json() method call.

• POST:

  • upload_json (str): Uploaded JSON with graph.

  • databases (list of Dataset): List of datasets to which user has access to.

  • json_error (bool): True if uploaded JSON is not correct. False otherwise.

  • experiments (list of oldExperiment): List of Experiments available in PlanNET.

  • no_layout (int): 1 if layout doesn’t have to be computed. 0 otherwise.

Template:

• NetExplorer/netexplorer.html

NetExplorer.views.pages.net_explorer.upload_graph(request, json_text)

This function will take the request with a JSON file and it will return a template with the graph loaded (it will also handle the errors). It will return a render object to be returned by net_explorer view.

Parameters

json_text (str) – JSON string specifying graph.

Returns

HttpResponse.

Resulting from the call to Django’s render function.

Return type

HttpResponse

Raises

ValueError – If json_text is not a correct cytoscape.js graph in JSON.