client-side JS construction of neuroglancer URLs

[davis.v...@gmail.com]

I need to programmatically generate a list of neuroglancer URLs encoding a lot of viewer state from n5 containers stored on s3. For each n5 container in an s3 bucket, I need to parse the attributes.json file and use that information to create either an image layer or a segmentation layer, adjust transformation matrices, etc.

I could manually construct the viewer state as JSON then escape out all the stuff that's not allowed in a URL, but I wondered if there was an easier way, e.g. to access ViewerState and other neuroglancer classes from clientside javascript, then use methods of those classes to generate a URL. This is the approach I would use if I were doing things in python, but I can't quite see how to do it easily in client-side JS. Complicating things is the fact that I'm very inexperienced with JS...

So, any examples or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[Ecks Gee]

Wow, since Jan 9. You might have better luck asking the question on NG github?

AFAIK, in the global scope, there is a viewer object, which you can find various useful info

client side JS also provide encodeURI and encodeURIComponent methods, which should make escaping URL less painful