How to duplicate a network with CyRest API

[mbro...@gmail.com]

I would like to create a duplicate network (including its node layout) within a session (so that nodes are at the same location, but colored with different styles later).

I wonder if there is a way to do that? If yes, ignore the question in the next paragraph.

Right now, my plan is to create a network twice (end up with two identical networks), then apply a layout to the first network, retrieve the first view from the first network (which contains position.x and position.y data) and try to create a new view on the second (so the second has the same coordinates).  So this leads to a test that I need to modify node coordinates.  I run POST to create a new view, position.x and position.y data are not used by the server in my test, all nodes in the view still have zero for their x and y.  Could you let me know if the current CyREST API ignores position.x and position.y during view creation, or this is a bug on my side?

Thanks!

[Keiichiro Ono]

Hi.

If you just want to create duplicate networks from desktop, CTR+A and
then CTR+N. This creates duplicated network in the same collection.

If you want to do it programmatically via CyREST, you can use POST
method for a particular network. For example,

GET /v1/networks/1234

returns network JSON with SUID 1234 from Cytoscape, but if you use

POST /v1/networks/1234

This creates a new networks from selected nodes and edges in the
network 1234. So, in your case, you just need to select all and then
use this POST method.

Kei

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[mbro...@gmail.com]

Thank for the quick reply.  First, I need to do this programmatically.  Second, I had tried what you suggested, yes, I can duplicate the network (nodes and edges), but the issue is all nodes are located in the center of the view, having x=y=0 in the new network view, but I need to clone the node coordinates as well.

Thanks! 

    cc=CyRestClient(ip="localhost", port="1234")

    first_net_id=cc.network.get_all()[0]

    first_net=cc.network.create(suid=first_net_id)

    print cc.network.create(suid=None,data= first_net.to_json())

    exit()