Creates a new network trace.
The MAIDR layer carrying the links
Protected ReadonlyobserversProtectedisProtectedisTrue while AbstractTrace.getStateAt computes state at a temporarily moved cursor. Enforces (structurally, not just by documentation) that state getters never notify observers.
Protected ReadonlyidProtected ReadonlytypeProtected ReadonlytitleProtected ReadonlynameWhat this layer is, when the producer named it. See MaidrLayer.name.
Protected ReadonlyxProtected ReadonlyyProtected ReadonlyzProtected ReadonlynavigationProtected ReadonlylayerProtected ReadonlysupportsNo go-to-extrema dialog. The arrows already reach every node, and the
most connected are named in the description; see extremaContract.
Protected ReadonlymovableProtected ReadonlyhighlightProtectedisWhether the cursor has no point to report.
Read from dimension rather than from any one trace's data,
because that is the one shape every trace already answers in. It is also
evaluated at the cursor — LineTrace returns the current series'
length as cols — so this covers a ragged layer, where one series has
points and another has none, and not only a layer that is empty
throughout.
True when there is nothing at (row, col) to describe
Gets the current state of the trace including audio, braille, text, and highlight information.
The current TraceState
ProtectedoutThe state pushed to observers when navigation leaves the data.
Declared as TraceEmptyState rather than the whole TraceState union
because that is what every implementation actually returns — the accessor
exists so AbstractPlot.notifyOutOfBounds has an empty state to
push. Narrowing it here is what lets the braille and highlight callers
hand the value straight on: those states accept the empty trace shape but
not a populated one, so a wider declaration would force each of them to
cast, and a cast is exactly what stops the compiler from noticing if an
override ever starts returning a populated state.
The empty trace state, positioned for out-of-bounds audio panning.
ProtectedhighlightProtectedautoplayProtectedhasThe trace's chart type. Lightweight alternative to reading
state.traceType, which eagerly computes the full audio/braille/text/
highlight state just to expose this one string.
ProtectedvaluesProtectedaudioProtectedbrailleProtectedtextProtecteddimensionThe line the highlight currently covers, as an index into this layer's
data array.
This is highlight answered in a renderer-neutral currency. A network
drawn on a canvas has no SVG elements for selectors to reach, and an
adapter that rebuilt the component walk to find the node itself would drift
from findComponents silently -- so the trace names the line by the
position it occupies in the link array the adapter supplied, and the
adapter inverts that against its own extraction walk.
Derived from lineOf, the same expression mapToSvgElements indexes
its elements with, so the canvas highlight and the SVG highlight cannot
name different lines.
Deliberately not gated on SVG availability: a canvas chart has no elements by definition, and that is the case this exists to serve.
One index into layer.data, or nothing when the cursor is on no
node or on an isolated one.
ProtectedgetGets safe row and column indices to prevent accessing undefined values
Object with safe row and column indices
Registers an observer to receive state updates.
The observer to add
Removes an observer from receiving state updates.
The observer to remove
Notifies all registered observers with the current state.
Notifies observers that an out-of-bounds condition occurred.
Base implementation of navigation in HIGHER and LOWER modes of ROTOR, default is no-op Needs to be implemented in Line, Bar, Heatmap, Candlestick
Utility function to compare point values for rotor functionality
boolean value
Returns true if this trace supports compare (lower/higher value) navigation. Override to false for trace types that don't use compare modes (e.g., scatter, which is all we currently have).
Returns the display name for the default data navigation mode. Override to provide a trace-specific name (e.g., "ROW AND COLUMN NAVIGATION" for scatter).
Returns the rotor's compare-mode labels and boundary-message nouns. Override to rename the two compare units for a trace-specific semantic (e.g., the candlestick delta layer uses "above line" / "below line").
Cleans up trace resources including values and highlighted SVG elements.
Only removes elements MAIDR created (hidden clones, synthetic markers); traces that highlight the chart's original live elements in place (e.g. heatmap cells, line dots) merely drop their references so the visible chart geometry survives focusout and live-data rebuilds.
Get all highlight SVG elements for this trace Used by HighlightService for high contrast mode
Array of all SVG elements, or empty array if none
Get all original (visible) SVG elements for this trace. These are the actual rendered elements, not the hidden clones used for highlighting. Used by HighlightService for high contrast mode color changes.
Array of all original SVG elements, or empty array if none
ProtectedgetComputes the trace state at an arbitrary position without moving the user's cursor or notifying observers. Used by monitor mode to sonify and announce a newly appended point while the user stays put.
The state getters read this.row/this.col internally, so the cursor
is moved temporarily and always restored in a finally block — this
method is the single owner of that pattern.
Re-entrancy hazard: this is only safe because the entire call chain is synchronous (no await points), so timers (e.g. autoplay ticks) cannot interleave before the finally-restore, and state getters never notify observers. If a getter ever becomes async or triggers notifications, callers could observe the temporary cursor.
The row of the position to compute state for
The column of the position to compute state for
The trace state at the requested position
Resets the trace to initial entry state
ProtectedgetReturns a human-readable label for this trace's chart type (e.g., 'Bar Chart', 'Scatter Plot') for display in the description modal. Falls back to the raw layer type if no mapping is registered.
ProtectedgetBuilds the axes object for the description state, including z only when the layer explicitly provides a z-axis label. Subclasses should call this instead of constructing the axes object inline so charts without a real z dimension don't surface the placeholder default.
Get available extrema targets for the current navigation context
Array of extrema targets that can be navigated to Default implementation returns empty array (no extrema support)
Base implementation for navigateToExtrema Subclasses must override to provide actual implementation
The extrema target to navigate to
ProtectedfinalizeCommon post-navigation cleanup that should be called by subclasses after they update their internal state
Returns true if this trace supports intersection navigation mode. Opt-in per trace type: override to return true (possibly conditionally, e.g. based on data shape) for trace types that expose point intersections between series. Intersection navigation is a trace-level capability — it has no meaning at the figure or subplot level, which is why it lives on AbstractTrace rather than AbstractPlot.
Returns true if this trace supports point-by-point navigation mode. Opt-in per trace type: override to return true for traces that expose individual data points navigable in reading order (left/right) and column-major order (up/down). Currently only ScatterTrace.
Move to the next point intersection (right arrow in intersection rotor mode). Default is a no-op returning false; subclasses that advertise supportsIntersectionMode must override to provide real behavior.
Move to the previous point intersection (left arrow in intersection rotor mode). Default is a no-op returning false; subclasses that advertise supportsIntersectionMode must override to provide real behavior.
Notifies the trace that the rotor is entering or leaving INTERSECTION_MODE. Default is a no-op; line-style traces don't need to track mode state because their state output is unchanged by the rotor mode. Traces whose audio/text output differs in intersection mode (e.g. ScatterTrace, which normally plays the whole x-column as a chord and must instead focus a single point) override this to flip an internal flag.
True when entering intersection mode, false when leaving.
ProtectedupdateDefault implementation for updating visual point position Subclasses can override if they need custom positioning logic
Checks if this plot supports extrema navigation.
True if extrema navigation is supported
Base implementation for getting current X value Subclasses can override if they have different data structures
Moves to a specific X value in the trace.
The X value to navigate to
True if the move was successful, false otherwise
Gets the unique identifier for this trace.
The trace ID
Moves the active point to the pointer location and returns directional guidance toward the nearest data geometry in a single call.
Combining both operations avoids running findNearestPoint twice per
pointermove event — important on dense plots where the scan is the
hot path.
Screen-space x position of the pointer/finger
Screen-space y position of the pointer/finger
Guidance state relative to nearest point, or null when unavailable
ProtectedmoveMoves the trace to the nearest point when the pointer is within its bounds and the trace is not already focused on that point.
onCurve is intentionally non-optional: the caller has already paid
the cost of isPointInBounds to assemble guidance state, and
forcing subclasses to accept the value makes the contract explicit so a
future override cannot silently recompute (or worse, ignore) it.
Subclasses override this to customise hover-driven navigation:
Checks if the specified coordinates are within bounds of the element.
The x-coordinate
The y-coordinate
Object containing the SVG element and its position
True if the point is in bounds, false otherwise
Offers a walk along the current node's links.
The arrows deliberately do not follow edges -- that would strand every component but the first -- so this is where the graph traversal lives. It is also where it belongs on an undirected graph: a node's neighbours have equal status, so there is no single edge for an arrow to take.
Withheld on a chart where nothing is linked to anything.
The link unit alongside whatever else is offered
Moves within an active rotor filter unit along the filtered axis.
Called by RotorNavigationService when the current rotor mode is
one of this trace's getRotorFilterUnits. Filter units navigate a
single axis, so only left/right are dispatched here — the service
announces up/down as unavailable without calling the model (matching
intersection mode). Implementations should move to the nearest point
matching the unit identified by key and notify observers, returning
true; when no such point exists they should call notifyRotorBounds
and return false.
Default is a no-op that reports bounds, so a trace advertising a filter unit but forgetting to implement movement fails safe (announces "no point found") rather than moving unexpectedly.
True if the cursor moved, false otherwise
Protectedfind
Trace implementation for network and node-link diagrams.
The same graph cursor a FlowTrace carries, with the constraints relaxed: the edges are undirected and there are no stages, because a force layout has no columns and nothing to lay them out along.
Layout position is emergent and carries no meaning, so it is not in the schema at all. Where a force-directed node lands is a fact about the solver's random seed, and announcing "upper left" as though it were data would be inventing a finding. The type has no
xoryto be tempted by; highlighting goes through selectors, as everywhere else.What replaces position is the structure that is actually there. A node's degree is primary information on this chart -- the hub is the finding -- so it is announced on every move, and the nodes of a component are ordered by it, which puts the hubs where a reader arrives first.
A reader must never be stuck in one component. Following edges reaches only the component you are in, and a graph with several would leave the rest unreachable and unannounced. So the arrows do not follow edges:
Between them they reach every node of the chart, which is the guarantee that matters. Following an edge -- the graph traversal itself -- is the rotor, which is also where it belongs on an undirected graph: a node's neighbours have equal status, so there is no "the" edge for an arrow to take, unlike a sankey where the widest ribbon is the one an eye follows.