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Flowchart: Apply nodeSpacing/rankSpacing config to subgraphs #5183

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@rowanfr rowanfr commented Jan 7, 2024

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This commit resolves the issues with subgraph configuration, specifically for nodeSpacing and rankSpacing. This commit additionally adds an example graph to the flowchart.html to demonstrate this resolution.

Resolves #3258

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This is a fairly simple modification that applies the configuration held in the label for the overall graph to the configuration for the cluster/subgraph in order to ensure they have matching configurations. This is done right before recursiveRender begins to render each cluster. The reason this needs to be done is that the label for the subgraphs do not contain the correct nodeSpacing and rankSpacing based on the mermaid configuration. Therefore if one overwrites the graph label right before rendering it resolves the mismatch of configurations.

Some potential improvements for this commit would be to allow subgraphs to have there own customization labels. This would be fairly trivial (presumably) by just replacing graph.graph() with whatever settings you want from whatever configurations you want.

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    💻 have added necessary unit/e2e tests. (Not necessary to my knowledge though I'm open to alternative opinions)
    📓 have added documentation. Make sure MERMAID_RELEASE_VERSION is used for all new features. (Not necessary to my knowledge as this is a bugfix)
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This commit resolves the issues with subgraph configuration, specifically for nodeSpacing and rankSpacing. This commit additionally adds an example graph to the `flowchart.html` to demonstrate this resolution. This commit resolves mermaid-js#3258
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Hi! Thanks for addressing the issue! Deployment failed, we will have to investigate why, but regardless of this there are some minor comments.

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Co-authored-by: Nikolay Rozhkov <[email protected]>
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rowanfr commented Jan 14, 2024

@nirname Thanks for the suggested change in syntax, I didn't even know that was available

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@rowanfr rowanfr marked this pull request as draft January 16, 2024 01:27
There was an issue with overriding the subgraphs with the main graphs direction which this commit fixes. It only overrides `rankdir` on the `setGraph` function so that the subgraph preserves it's `rankdir`. There is likely a better way of doing this by modifying the initialization of subgraph configuration to match the main graph when it comes to other elements in the JSON object which composes the graph label.

As we modify the codebase this added line can be deprecated once we add more modular control to subgraphs such as allowing custom spacing or configurations for them. As `rankdir` is the only thing one can set with the `direction` keyword that is the only variable being overwritten for now.
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rowanfr commented Jan 20, 2024

@sidharthv96 Could you tell me how or where you encountered the errors that your showing? I'm using the dev server to get output data and they all seem to be resolving as expected. I'm unfortunately unfamiliar with cypress so I don't know how to run it locally.
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It was observed after the run of the E2E test that was triggered by the pull request event (not the push event).

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rowanfr commented Jan 20, 2024

After some research the e2e test failing doesn't seem to occur locally outside of randomly when changing the window or running other applications (and even this doesn't align with the CI tests which fail), however Cypress errors for rendering/flowchart-v2.spec.js and rendering/flowchart.spec.js don't occur locally on Firefox Nightly or Electron after testing. I think this means that the tests are configured to take snapshots too early, but I'm still investigating it.

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rowanfr commented Jan 20, 2024

For the examples above all seem to have the links and graphs shift position slightly. This seems to be an browser dependent issue as I can test locally on electron it repeatedly produce successful graphs for Cypress, firefox nightly seems to randomly produce successful graphs while edge and chrome do not. As I've stated earlier I'll look into this a bit further but I think this has to do with browser rendering diff, which I don't have the ability to address

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Hmm, The E2E tests are working fine on other PRs, so it means some change in this one is triggering the browser inconsistency, and it's failing consistently as well, not flaky.

Maybe your change has some other effects downstream that's causing the issue. We'll have to investigate further.

@aloisklink @nirname @Yokozuna59 do you folks have any pointers?

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I think I've spotted the issue that was causing the E2E tests to fail, we just need to slightly modify the code so that it doesn't copy the parent graph's margin.

It would also be nice to have a very basic E2E test in the cypress/integration/rendering/flowchart-v2.spec.js file (e.g. your demo diagram), just so we get automated tests so we know not to break your feature!

Other than that, this PR looks good to me. Awesome work in finding the place to update in the first place, the packages/mermaid/src/dagre-wrapper/index.js file is pretty difficult to understand!

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The code setting the `ranksep` and `nodesep` to subgraphs was made cleaner and more legible while maintaining the intended functionality of subgraph spacing

Co-authored-by: Alois Klink <[email protected]>
This adds E2E testing for spacing and provides more appropriate comments for the changes made to `index.js`
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rowanfr commented Feb 29, 2024

@aloisklink Thanks for spotting the issue that was causing the E2E tests to fail. That problem genuinely had me completely stumped for months. I've added the E2E testing for subgraph configuration as you suggested

@aloisklink aloisklink changed the title Resolved issue with subgraph configuration Flowchart: Apply nodeSpacing/rankSpacing config to subgraphs Feb 29, 2024
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Looks awesome to me now! Btw, I've slightly adjusted the PR title, let me know if you don't like it and want to change it back (or to something else).

Thanks for spotting the issue that was causing the E2E tests to fail. That problem genuinely had me completely stumped for months.

Yep, the dagre-wrapper/index.js file is really really hard to read. I really want to look into converting it to TypeScript and adding at least some documentation to it, but I think we might also need to fix some types in a third-party library (and that library is also very undocumented), so it would be a lot of work :(

@aloisklink aloisklink added Type: Bug / Error Something isn't working or is incorrect Graph: Flow labels Feb 29, 2024
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rowanfr commented Feb 29, 2024

The new title looks great and is more accurate to the solution, the earlier title was generally what was desired so the change to it makes sense.

As for dagre-wrapper/index.js I agree that unraveling that back to third party libraries that eventually rely on graphlib graph labels for rendering logic was fairly difficult and TypeScript alongside further documentation of the third party libraries would go a long way to help

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rowanfr commented Feb 29, 2024

The E2E tests are failing due to some separate git graph tests that were failing due to randomized commit IDs as detailed in the issue #5343 and the subsequent PR #5344. If we merge those minor changes the E2E testing for this PR should be resolved.

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rowanfr commented Mar 1, 2024

@nirname could you check over the changes you've requested to see if they've been completed and then approve the PR if you feel confident?

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Is there an update to this pull request, I am having the same issues and would love a solution :)

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rowanfr commented Mar 12, 2024

@Stevio54 It's feature complete, it just needs to be merged

@sidharthv96 sidharthv96 merged commit 12bf139 into mermaid-js:develop Mar 23, 2024
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