It is possible to add the dictionary arguments in the linkout function?

[Chi-HsienChang]

Hi JBrowse2 developers,

I want to ask:

It is possible to add the dictionary arguments in the linkout function?

Here's I currently try do it as follows:

After that, the Feature details turn to empty:

I try the grammer of TypeScript is correct:

This is the code of the plugin:
https://github.com/Chi-HsienChang/jbrowse-plugin-linkout

Thank you so much!

[cmdcolin]

as far as I can tell, passing an object just like you do works for me. I would again check the javascript console to see if there is any bug, but it look ok to me. You mentioned the blank screen also yesterday, I am not sure what causes that but if you can identify make a small reproducible case, I can investigate. #3635 (reply in thread)

that said, I will note, stylistically, the way you are looping through the object with a double nested loop looks odd to me. i recommend pasting raw source code and not a screenshot as it's hard to copy and paste otherwise, and (personal preference :)) recommend running through
https://prettier.io/

[cmdcolin]

I see you pasted code here also so that is helpful https://github.com/Chi-HsienChang/jbrowse-plugin-linkout

here is a refactoring i tried

pluginManager.jexl.addFunction('linkout', (dict, feature) => {
        if (!feature.dbxref) {
          return ''
        }
        const dbxrefs = Array.isArray(feature.dbxref)
          ? feature.dbxref
          : [feature.dbxref]

        return dbxrefs.map(dbxref => {
          const [root, content] = dbxref.split(':')
          const link = dict[root]
          return link ? `<a href=${link}${content}>${dbxref}</a>` : dbxref
        })
      })

then in config

"formatDetails": {
        "feature": "jexl:{dbxref:linkout({Genbank:'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/'},feature)}",
        "subfeatures": "jexl:{dbxref:linkout({Genbank:'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/'},feature)}"
      },

[cmdcolin]

I also tried making a better error handler in this PR so that in future versions you won't get a blank screen on error but instead get an error message https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse-components/pull/3642/files

[Chi-HsienChang]

Hi @cmdcolin,

I really appreciate you so much!!!!!!!

It works for me now!