Path Tracing

From version 1.0.3, the Toolkit supports tracing a path between a given source and target node using an Overlay.

• Basic Example
• Animation Options
• Tracing a specific Path
• CSS Classes
• Events

Basic Example

// setup two nodes and connect
var toolkit = jsPlumbToolkit.newInstance();
var renderer = toolkit.render({
    container:"myElement"
});
toolkit.load({
  data:{
    nodes: [    a bunch of nodes. let's pretend they have IDs from 1 - 34 ],
    edges:[ a bunch of edges ]
  }
});

var traced = renderer.tracePath({
    source:1,
    target:23,
    overlay:"Arrow"
});

if (!traced) alert("There was no such path");

In this example we've attempted to trace an arrow overlay along the shortest path from node 1 to node 23, using the default animation options, which are:

• travel at 100 pixels per second
• use a frame rate of 30 frames per second
• dwell on each intermediate element for 250 milliseconds

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Animation Options

You can change the default animation options if you need to:

var traced = renderer.tracePath({
    source:1,
    target:23,
    overlay:"Arrow",
    options:{
      speed: 25,   // pixels per second
      rate: 60     // frames per second
      dwell: 50    // dwell on intermediate elements for 50 milliseconds
    }
});

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Tracing a specific Path

The two examples given so far do not mandate any specific Path to travel from the source to the target, so the Toolkit will pick the shortest path (which is controlled by both number of hops and edge cost if you have provided that for any of your edges). However, you can supply any Path to this method, should you want to.

To get a Path that is not the shortest path you will need to make use of a nodeFilter and/or edgeFilter when you call getPath on some Toolkit instance, as discussed on this page. An example:

var path = toolkit.getPath({
    source:1,
    target:23,
    edgeFilter:function(edge) {
      return !edge.data.type == "aTypeIWouldIgnore"
    }
});

This path can then be passed to tracePath instead of providing a source and target:

renderer.tracePath({
    path:path,
    overlay:"Arrow",
    options:{
      speed: 25,   // pixels per second
      rate: 60     // frames per second
      dwell: 50    // dwell on intermediate elements for 50 milliseconds
    }
});

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CSS Classes

During the lifetime of a path traversal, the following classes are used:

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Events

These events will be fired by the renderer during a path traversal: