Preserve ui state across Plotly.react redraws

src/components/annotations/draw.js

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ function drawRaw(gd, options, index, subplotId, xa, ya) {
                         });
                     },
                     doneFn: function() {
-                        Registry.call('relayout', gd, getUpdateObj());
+                        Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, getUpdateObj());
                         var notesBox = document.querySelector('.js-notes-box-panel');
                         if(notesBox) notesBox.redraw(notesBox.selectedObj);
                     }
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ function drawRaw(gd, options, index, subplotId, xa, ya) {
                 },
                 doneFn: function() {
                     setCursor(annTextGroupInner);
-                    Registry.call('relayout', gd, getUpdateObj());
+                    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, getUpdateObj());
                     var notesBox = document.querySelector('.js-notes-box-panel');
                     if(notesBox) notesBox.redraw(notesBox.selectedObj);
                 }
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ function drawRaw(gd, options, index, subplotId, xa, ya) {
                     modifyBase(ya._name + '.autorange', true);
                 }
 
-                Registry.call('relayout', gd, getUpdateObj());
+                Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, getUpdateObj());
             });
     }
     else annText.call(textLayout);

src/components/colorbar/draw.js

@@ -467,15 +467,10 @@ module.exports = function draw(gd, id) {
         }
 
         function drawTitle(titleClass, titleOpts) {
-            var trace = getTrace();
-            var propName = 'colorbar.title';
-            var containerName = trace._module.colorbar.container;
-            if(containerName) propName = containerName + '.' + propName;
-
             var dfltTitleOpts = {
                 propContainer: cbAxisOut,
-                propName: propName,
-                traceIndex: trace.index,
+                propName: getPropName('title'),
+                traceIndex: getTrace().index,
                 placeholder: fullLayout._dfltTitle.colorbar,
                 containerGroup: container.select('.cbtitle')
             };
@@ -627,11 +622,10 @@ module.exports = function draw(gd, id) {
                     setCursor(container);
 
                     if(xf !== undefined && yf !== undefined) {
-                        Registry.call('restyle',
-                            gd,
-                            {'colorbar.x': xf, 'colorbar.y': yf},
-                            getTrace().index
-                        );
+                        var update = {};
+                        update[getPropName('x')] = xf;
+                        update[getPropName('y')] = yf;
+                        Registry.call('_guiRestyle', gd, update, getTrace().index);
                     }
                 }
             });
@@ -649,6 +643,14 @@ module.exports = function draw(gd, id) {
         }
     }
 
+    function getPropName(suffix) {
+        var trace = getTrace();
+        var propName = 'colorbar.';
+        var containerName = trace._module.colorbar.container;
+        if(containerName) propName = containerName + '.' + propName;
+        return propName + suffix;
+    }
+
     // setter/getters for every item defined in opts
     Object.keys(opts).forEach(function(name) {
         component[name] = function(v) {

src/components/legend/attributes.js

@@ -120,5 +120,14 @@ module.exports = {
             'or *bottom* of the legend.'
         ].join(' ')
     },
+    uirevision: {
+        valType: 'any',
+        role: 'info',
+        editType: 'none',
+        description: [
+            'Controls persistence of legend-driven changes in trace and pie label',
+            'visibility. Defaults to `layout.uirevision`.'
+        ].join(' ')
+    },
     editType: 'legend'
 };

src/components/legend/defaults.js

@@ -66,14 +66,18 @@ module.exports = function legendDefaults(layoutIn, layoutOut, fullData) {
         basePlotLayoutAttributes, 'showlegend',
         legendReallyHasATrace && legendTraceCount > 1);
 
-    if(showLegend === false) return;
+    if(showLegend === false && !containerIn.uirevision) return;
 
     var containerOut = Template.newContainer(layoutOut, 'legend');
 
     function coerce(attr, dflt) {
         return Lib.coerce(containerIn, containerOut, attributes, attr, dflt);
     }
 
+    coerce('uirevision', layoutOut.uirevision);
+
+    if(showLegend === false) return;
+
     coerce('bgcolor', layoutOut.paper_bgcolor);
     coerce('bordercolor');
     coerce('borderwidth');

src/components/legend/draw.js

@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ module.exports = function draw(gd) {
                     },
                     doneFn: function() {
                         if(xf !== undefined && yf !== undefined) {
-                            Registry.call('relayout', gd, {'legend.x': xf, 'legend.y': yf});
+                            Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, {'legend.x': xf, 'legend.y': yf});
                         }
                     },
                     clickFn: function(numClicks, e) {
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ function drawTexts(g, gd, maxLength) {
                     update.name = newName;
                 }
 
-                return Registry.call('restyle', gd, update, traceIndex);
+                return Registry.call('_guiRestyle', gd, update, traceIndex);
             });
     } else {
         textLayout(textEl);

src/components/legend/handle_click.js

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ module.exports = function handleClick(g, gd, numClicks) {
             }
         }
 
-        Registry.call('relayout', gd, 'hiddenlabels', hiddenSlices);
+        Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, 'hiddenlabels', hiddenSlices);
     } else {
         var hasLegendgroup = legendgroup && legendgroup.length;
         var traceIndicesInGroup = [];
@@ -217,6 +217,6 @@ module.exports = function handleClick(g, gd, numClicks) {
             }
         }
 
-        Registry.call('restyle', gd, attrUpdate, attrIndices);
+        Registry.call('_guiRestyle', gd, attrUpdate, attrIndices);
     }
 };

src/components/modebar/buttons.js

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ function handleCartesian(gd, ev) {
         aobj[astr] = val;
     }
 
-    Registry.call('relayout', gd, aobj);
+    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, aobj);
 }
 
 modeBarButtons.zoom3d = {
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ function handleDrag3d(gd, ev) {
     var val2d = (val === 'pan') ? val : 'zoom';
     layoutUpdate.dragmode = val2d;
 
-    Registry.call('relayout', gd, layoutUpdate);
+    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, layoutUpdate);
 }
 
 modeBarButtons.resetCameraDefault3d = {
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ function handleCamera3d(gd, ev) {
         }
     }
 
-    Registry.call('relayout', gd, aobj);
+    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, aobj);
 }
 
 modeBarButtons.hoverClosest3d = {
@@ -370,54 +370,48 @@ modeBarButtons.hoverClosest3d = {
     click: handleHover3d
 };
 
-function handleHover3d(gd, ev) {
+function getNextHover3d(gd, ev) {
     var button = ev.currentTarget;
-    var val = button._previousVal || false;
-    var layout = gd.layout;
+    var val = button._previousVal;
     var fullLayout = gd._fullLayout;
     var sceneIds = fullLayout._subplots.gl3d;
 
     var axes = ['xaxis', 'yaxis', 'zaxis'];
-    var spikeAttrs = ['showspikes', 'spikesides', 'spikethickness', 'spikecolor'];
 
     // initialize 'current spike' object to be stored in the DOM
     var currentSpikes = {};
-    var axisSpikes = {};
     var layoutUpdate = {};
 
     if(val) {
-        layoutUpdate = Lib.extendDeep(layout, val);
+        layoutUpdate = val;
         button._previousVal = null;
     }
     else {
-        layoutUpdate = {
-            'allaxes.showspikes': false
-        };
-
         for(var i = 0; i < sceneIds.length; i++) {
-            var sceneId = sceneIds[i],
-                sceneLayout = fullLayout[sceneId],
-                sceneSpikes = currentSpikes[sceneId] = {};
+            var sceneId = sceneIds[i];
+            var sceneLayout = fullLayout[sceneId];
 
-            sceneSpikes.hovermode = sceneLayout.hovermode;
-            layoutUpdate[sceneId + '.hovermode'] = false;
+            var hovermodeAStr = sceneId + '.hovermode';
+            currentSpikes[hovermodeAStr] = sceneLayout.hovermode;
+            layoutUpdate[hovermodeAStr] = false;
 
             // copy all the current spike attrs
             for(var j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
                 var axis = axes[j];
-                axisSpikes = sceneSpikes[axis] = {};
-
-                for(var k = 0; k < spikeAttrs.length; k++) {
-                    var spikeAttr = spikeAttrs[k];
-                    axisSpikes[spikeAttr] = sceneLayout[axis][spikeAttr];
-                }
+                var spikeAStr = sceneId + '.' + axis + '.showspikes';
+                layoutUpdate[spikeAStr] = false;
+                currentSpikes[spikeAStr] = sceneLayout[axis].showspikes;
             }
         }
 
-        button._previousVal = Lib.extendDeep({}, currentSpikes);
+        button._previousVal = currentSpikes;
     }
+    return layoutUpdate;
+}
 
-    Registry.call('relayout', gd, layoutUpdate);
+function handleHover3d(gd, ev) {
+    var layoutUpdate = getNextHover3d(gd, ev);
+    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, layoutUpdate);
 }
 
 modeBarButtons.zoomInGeo = {
@@ -473,7 +467,7 @@ function handleGeo(gd, ev) {
             var scale = geoLayout.projection.scale;
             var newScale = (val === 'in') ? 2 * scale : 0.5 * scale;
 
-            Registry.call('relayout', gd, id + '.projection.scale', newScale);
+            Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, id + '.projection.scale', newScale);
         } else if(attr === 'reset') {
             resetView(gd, 'geo');
         }
@@ -501,18 +495,20 @@ modeBarButtons.hoverClosestPie = {
     click: toggleHover
 };
 
-function toggleHover(gd) {
+function getNextHover(gd) {
     var fullLayout = gd._fullLayout;
 
-    var onHoverVal;
+    if(fullLayout.hovermode) return false;
+
     if(fullLayout._has('cartesian')) {
-        onHoverVal = fullLayout._isHoriz ? 'y' : 'x';
+        return fullLayout._isHoriz ? 'y' : 'x';
     }
-    else onHoverVal = 'closest';
-
-    var newHover = gd._fullLayout.hovermode ? false : onHoverVal;
+    return 'closest';
+}
 
-    Registry.call('relayout', gd, 'hovermode', newHover);
+function toggleHover(gd) {
+    var newHover = getNextHover(gd);
+    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, 'hovermode', newHover);
 }
 
 // buttons when more then one plot types are present
@@ -526,12 +522,10 @@ modeBarButtons.toggleHover = {
     icon: Icons.tooltip_basic,
     gravity: 'ne',
     click: function(gd, ev) {
-        toggleHover(gd);
+        var layoutUpdate = getNextHover3d(gd, ev);
+        layoutUpdate.hovermode = getNextHover(gd);
 
-        // the 3d hovermode update must come
-        // last so that layout.hovermode update does not
-        // override scene?.hovermode?.layout.
-        handleHover3d(gd, ev);
+        Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, layoutUpdate);
     }
 };
 
@@ -567,7 +561,7 @@ modeBarButtons.toggleSpikelines = {
 
         var aobj = setSpikelineVisibility(gd);
 
-        Registry.call('relayout', gd, aobj);
+        Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, aobj);
     }
 };
 
@@ -614,5 +608,5 @@ function resetView(gd, subplotType) {
         }
     }
 
-    Registry.call('relayout', gd, aObj);
+    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, aObj);
 }

src/components/rangeselector/draw.js

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ module.exports = function draw(gd) {
             button.on('click', function() {
                 if(gd._dragged) return;
 
-                Registry.call('relayout', gd, update);
+                Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, update);
             });
 
             button.on('mouseover', function() {

src/components/rangeslider/draw.js

@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ function setDataRange(rangeSlider, gd, axisOpts, opts) {
         dataMax = clamp(opts.p2d(opts._pixelMax));
 
     window.requestAnimationFrame(function() {
-        Registry.call('relayout', gd, axisOpts._name + '.range', [dataMin, dataMax]);
+        Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, axisOpts._name + '.range', [dataMin, dataMax]);
     });
 }
 

src/components/shapes/draw.js

@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ function setupDragElement(gd, shapePath, shapeOptions, index, shapeLayer) {
 
         // Don't rely on clipPath being activated during re-layout
         setClipPath(shapePath, gd, shapeOptions);
-        Registry.call('relayout', gd, editHelpers.getUpdateObj());
+        Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, editHelpers.getUpdateObj());
     }
 
     function abortDrag() {

src/components/titles/index.js

@@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ function draw(gd, titleClass, options) {
         el.call(svgTextUtils.makeEditable, {gd: gd})
             .on('edit', function(text) {
                 if(traceIndex !== undefined) {
-                    Registry.call('restyle', gd, prop, text, traceIndex);
+                    Registry.call('_guiRestyle', gd, prop, text, traceIndex);
                 } else {
-                    Registry.call('relayout', gd, prop, text);
+                    Registry.call('_guiRelayout', gd, prop, text);
                 }
             })
             .on('cancel', function() {

src/core.js

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ var plotApi = require('./plot_api');
 var methodNames = Object.keys(plotApi);
 for(var i = 0; i < methodNames.length; i++) {
     var name = methodNames[i];
-    exports[name] = plotApi[name];
+    // _ -> private API methods, but still registered for internal use
+    if(name.charAt(0) !== '_') exports[name] = plotApi[name];
     register({
         moduleType: 'apiMethod',
         name: name,

src/plot_api/index.js

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ exports.restyle = main.restyle;
 exports.relayout = main.relayout;
 exports.redraw = main.redraw;
 exports.update = main.update;
+exports._guiRestyle = main._guiRestyle;
+exports._guiRelayout = main._guiRelayout;
+exports._guiUpdate = main._guiUpdate;
+exports._storeDirectGUIEdit = main._storeDirectGUIEdit;
 exports.react = main.react;
 exports.extendTraces = main.extendTraces;
 exports.prependTraces = main.prependTraces;