Re: [gephi-dev] AttributeColumn recast plugin

[Eduardo Ramos Ibáñez]

Hi Taras,
That would be a good plugin for data lab, yours is probably the first :)
Though recasting can already be done with "Duplicate column" button in data
laboratory, this would be useful to automatically recast many columns at
once.

Can you explain a bit more the force recast option (maybe a tooltip or some
short text in the UI) and in which way the conversion is different than
what AttrituteType parsing does?
Also, it would rather be a PluginGeneralActionsManipulator instead of a
GeneralActionsManipulator so it will appear in the "More actions" drop down
list because the main toolbar is already full.
By the way I recently added some data lab plugin examples to
https://github.com/gephi/gephi-plugins-bootcamp

About the existing pull requests, please check the comment I wrote in
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/519
and about the DL fixes, I need to review that again because it is more
tricky than the other fixes and it cannot be automatically merged now.

Thanks,
Eduardo

2012/2/18 Taras Klaskovsky <mega...@gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I am implementing a great idea from idea list "Option to force re-casting
> attributes instead of using string by default" in form of general action
> button for data laboratory. It's almost ready(debug\support of
> lists\dynamic types\license and localization are remaining), and I would
> like to hear your thoughts about this. Also, should I distribute it as
> plugin or it could be merged in the trunk(I believe that's small and useful
> feature, perhaps it could be merged)?
> Links:
> branch: https://github.com/megaterik/gephi/commits/change-type-of-column
> nbm:
>
> https://github.com/downloads/megaterik/gephi/org-gephi-recast_manipulator.nbm
>
> Also at github there are my two week-old pull requests, bugfixes for dl and
> gdf exporters, is there anything I can change in them to help?
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> Taras Klaskovsky
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[Eduardo Ramos Ibáñez]

Hi Taras,
That's great, I will try the plugin.
I see, the current parsing will set null if it is unsuccessfull (except for
columns that can't have null values like weight).

Eduardo

2012/2/22 Taras Klaskovsky <mega...@gmail.com>

> Hi Eduardo,
> Idea of force recast checkbox that "force" could skip some information,
> like decimal fraction, for the sake of converting, at the same time without
> "force" user can fearlessly click on replace button, knowing that none of
> his data was lost. I will probably replace AttrituteType parsing with my
> own, to be more matching this idea.
> Thanks for the advices, I am planning to finish and upload my plugin soon
> :)
>
> 2012/2/20 Eduardo Ramos Ibáñez <edur...@gmail.com>

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> Regards,
> Taras Klaskovsky
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