Description
I use dash components in my Flask app to render shapes on a dcc.Graph figure input. Oftentimes, this involves appending a list of shapes to the graph using the formula below:
for center in center_list:
center = region.centroid
annotation = cluster_frame[cluster_frame['cell_id'] == mask_id]['cluster']
if len(annotation) > 0:
annotation = str(annotation.tolist()[0])
# boundary[int(center[0]), int(center[1])] = mask_id
shapes.append(
{'editable': False, 'line': {'color': 'white'}, 'type': 'circle',
'x0': (int(center[1]) - circle_size), 'x1': (int(center[1]) + circle_size),
'xref': 'x', 'y0': (int(center[0]) - circle_size), 'y1': (int(center[0]) + circle_size),
'yref': 'y',
'fillcolor': cluster_assignments[data_selection][annotation]})
self.figure['layout']['shapes'] = shapes
In the example above, a series of circles are generated around centroids for objects in the graph.
This scheme generally works well, but occasionally there will be in the following error when calling go.Figure(self.figure):
Invalid property specified for object of type plotly.graph_objs.layout.shape.label: 'texttemplate'
When I evaluate the shapes, sometimes they have a strange property added to them:
{'editable': False, 'line': {'color': 'white'}, 'type': 'circle', 'x0': 763, 'x1': 779, 'xref': 'x', 'y0': 284, 'y1': 300, 'yref': 'y', 'label': {'texttemplate': ''}}
It appears that plotly will randomly generate the label portion of the shape dictionary with a blank text template, which causes an error. It seems to happen indiscriminately and without a discernible pattern.
By comparison, most shapes appear to have a valid dictionary structure:
{'editable': True, 'line': {'color': 'white'}, 'type': 'circle', 'x0': 796, 'x1': 812, 'xref': 'x', 'y0': 293, 'y1': 309, 'yref': 'y'}