- Quick start
- How to use
- Reference manual
- MainFrame, applications
- GSON
- Datasets
- Building an IGP server
- Applications
- Contributing to InteractiveGraph
- Build & Debug
- Build & Release
- LICENSE
InteractiveGraph
InteractiveGraph provides a web-based interactive operating framwork for large graph data, which may come from a GSON file, or an online Neo4j graph database.
InteractiveGraph also provides three applications built on the framework: GraphNavigator
, GraphExplorer
and RelFinder
.
GraphNavigator: online demo https://grapheco.github.io/InteractiveGraph/dist/examples/example1.html
GraphExplorer: online demo
https://grapheco.github.io/InteractiveGraph/dist/examples/example2.html
RelFinder: online demo https://grapheco.github.io/InteractiveGraph/dist/examples/example3.html
Quick start
Step 1. download examples.zip
:
https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph/releases
Step 2. unzip and deploy examples.zip
as a webapp in a Web server (Apache, Tomcat, etc). A Web server is required, otherwise the graph data loading via AJAX will get an error.
Step 3. visit the webapp in Web browser, url may looks like: https://localhost:8080/examples/example1.html
change example1.html
to examples2.html
or examples3.html
, etc.
How to use
Step 1. download interactive-graph-<VERSION>.zip
(interactive-graph-0.1.0.zip
, for example) from dist
directory:
https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph/dist/
Step 2. unzip interactive-graph-<VERSION>.zip
, two files will be got: interactive-graph.min.js
and interactive-graph.min.css
.
Step 3. import the .js
and .css
files in HTML page, like that:
<script type="text/javascript" src="./lib/interactive-graph-0.1.0/interactive-graph.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="./lib/interactive-graph-0.1.0/interactive-graph.min.css">
Step 4. use functions and classes defined in igraph
namespace:
<script type="text/javascript">
igraph.i18n.setLanguage("chs");
var app = new igraph.GraphNavigator(document.getElementById('graphArea'));
app.loadGson("honglou.json");
</script>
As shown above, a GraphNavigator
application object is created and used to load graph data from honglou.json
.
For more details, see https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph/blob/master/dist/examples/example1.html.
To develop custom applications, it is a good idea to write new application classes derived on GraphNavigator
and other application classes. Furthermore, users can create new application classes via using a MainFrame
class directly.
Reference manual
InteractiveGraph API
InteractiveGraph is written in TypeScript. Visit https://grapheco.github.io/InteractiveGraph/dist/api/index.html to get online API documents.
dependencies
This project depends on some open sourced components including visjs
, npm
, gulp
, jQuery
, jQueryUI
, Font Awesome
and so on.
More dependencies, see https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph/blob/master/package.json.
MainFrame, applications
InteractiveGraph provides a MainFrame, which actually is a facade of Web UI, event handling and graph data connection.
controls
As shown above, MainFrame consists of a main graph rendering canvas, a set of navigation buttons, and serveral controls: search bar, tool bar, info box, highlight control and so on.
Some controls have Web UI, such as InfoBoxCtrl, MessageBoxCtrl, etc. While others work with no UI, such as HighlightNodeCtrl, ExpansionCtrl, etc. A Control
class and two derived classes UIControl
(controls with UI) and BGControl
(backgroud control with no UI) are defined in InteractiveGraph.
All controls are listed in the table below.
control | function | type |
---|---|---|
ConnectCtrl | show a load data dialog | UIControl |
ExpansionCtrl | expands a graph node on double click | BGControl |
HighlightNodeCtrl | highlight selected graph nodes | BGControl |
InfoBoxCtrl | show a infomation box on click on a graph node | UIControl |
MessageBoxCtrl | show a message box on demand | UIControl |
RelFinderCtrl | finding relations between graph nodes | BGControl |
RelFinderDialogCtrl | show a dialog for user to launch a finding task | UIControl |
SearchBarCtrl | show a search bar for keyword input | UIControl |
ToolbarCtrl | show a tool bar | UIControl |
theme
You can set the theme of an app when you create it:
<script type="text/javascript">
igraph.i18n.setLanguage("chs");
var app = new igraph.GraphNavigator(document.getElementById('graphArea'), 'LIGHT');
app.loadGson("honglou.json");
</script>
Or you can customize the theme according to your own needs:
<script type="text/javascript">
igraph.i18n.setLanguage("chs");
var app = new igraph.GraphNavigator(document.getElementById('graphArea'),{
groups: {
useSeqColors: false,
custom: {
person: {color:'blue'},
location: {color:'red'},
event: {color:'green'}
}
}
});
app.loadGson("honglou.json");
</script>
Then each type of node will change to the specified color. The parameters of the Theme object are as follows.
export interface Theme {
canvasBackground: string,
highlight: {
gradientInnerColor: string,
gradientOutterColor: string,
}
expansion: {
backgroudColorCollapsed: string,
backgroudColorExpanded: string,
fontColor: string
}
edges: object,
nodes: object,
groups?: {
useSeqColors: boolean,
SeqColors?:NodeColor[],
custom?:{}
}
}
Name | Type | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
canvasBackground | String | "none" |
Canvas background color |
highlight.gradientInnerColor | String | "#00FF00" |
Internal color gradient when node highlights. |
highlight.gradientOutterColor | String | "#FFFFFF" |
External color gradient when node highlights. |
expansion.backgroudColorCollapsed | String | "rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.9)" |
The color of the tag when node is collapsed. |
expansion.backgroudColorExpanded | String | "rgba(0, 128, 0, 0.9)" |
The color of the tag when node is expanded. |
expansion.fontColor | String | "#FFFFFF" |
The font color of the tag. |
edges | Object | Object |
All options in this object are explained in here. |
nodes | Object | Object |
All options in this object are explained in here. |
groups.useSeqColors | Boolean | false |
If true, the node will cycle use the colors in the color sequence. If false, nodes will use custom colors. |
groups.SeqColors | NodeColor[] | null |
The color sequence. |
groups.custom | Object | null |
The custom colors. |
event handling
MainFrame and controls communicate with applications through events. For example, when the window is resizing, MainFrame and all controls will receive FRAME_RESIZE events.
To subscribe a event, call a on(event, handler)
method on MainFrame or a Control. To cancel the subscription, use off(event, handler)
instead.
To fire an event to MainFrame, use MainFrame.emit(event, args)
or MainFrame.fire(event, args)
method. Unlike the emit()
method, fire()
put default context objects including mainFrame
, htmlMainFrame
, theme
into args
before emition. To fire an event to a Control
, use emit(event, args)
method.
data connector
MainFrame loads data via a Connector
which may connect to a LocalGraph
or a RemoteGraph
. A LocalGraph
loads all data once from a GSON object or file, while a RemoteGraph
interacts with a remote graph server each time if no cache data is available.
An application always employe an embedded MainFrame to load a GSON file via loadGson()
method:
app.loadGson("honglou.json");
Or calling connect()
method to load an interactive graph from remote IGP server:
app.connect("http://localhost:9999/graphserver/connector-bolt");
GSON
MainFrame loads data from a LocalGraph
in GSON
format. GSON
is actually an enhanced JSON
format for graph data. The enhancement is GSON
recoginzes function
s, which is not valid in JSON.
GSON
consists of some data items, it is defined as follow:
export interface GSON {
"data": {
nodes: object[];
edges?: object[];
}
"dbinfo"?: object;
"categories"?: object;
"translator"?: {
"nodes"?: (node: object) => void;
"edges"?: (node: object) => void;
};
}
Here, translator
defines translator functions for graph nodes and edges, which will be invoked on loading. An example is shown below, in which description
of each node is evaluated on loading time.
"translator": {
"nodes": function (node) {
//set description
if (node.description === undefined) {
var description = "<p align=center>";
description += "<img src='" + node.image + "' width=150/><br>";
description += "<b>" + node.label + "</b>" + "[" + node.id + "]";
description += "</p>";
node.description = description;
}
},
}
Datasets
Two GSON datasets are provided in examples as .json
files: honglou.json, WorldCup2014.json.
honglou.json
The honglou dataset comes from the Chinese famous novel Dream of the Red Chamber(also called The Story of the Stone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber), in which Jia Baoyu, Lin daiyu, and Xue baochai are famous characters. The honglou dataset defines 300+ entities represent persons, locations, and events in the novel, and 500+ links between them.
nickel2008@github provides this dataset. Maybe there are some mistakes in the dataset, but it is good enough to use as an example graph.
WorldCup2014.json
The world cup 2014 data set comes from http://visjs.org/examples/network/exampleApplications/worldCupPerformance.html. The edges in particular (~9200) are very computationally intensive to draw.
The next screenshot shows how WorldCup2014.json is rendered in GraphNavigator
(empowered by visjs).
Building an IGP server
An RemoteGraph
is always provided by an IGP(interactive graph protocol, see https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph/blob/master/IGP.md) server. To build an IGP server, refer to the InteractiveGraph-neo4j project and other 3-party projects.
project | description | language |
---|---|---|
InteractiveGraph-neo4j | InteractiveGraph-neo4j(https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph-neo4j) serves GSON files, Neo4j databases as InteractiveGraph providers, it generates InteractiveGraphs for remote frontend InteractiveGraph clients on demand. | Scala+Java+Spring |
InteractiveGraph-RDF | InteractiveGraph-RDF(https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph-RDF) serves RDF stores as InteractiveGraph providers | Scala+Java+Spring |
Applications
GraphNavigator
GraphExplorer
RelFinder
Contributing to InteractiveGraph
It would be highly appreciated if you commit any codes or documents to InteractiveGraph. If you have any good idea, please fork this project and create pull requests.
-
To contribute new applications, you may define new application class derived from
BaseApp
. -
To contribute any controls, you may define new control class derived from
UIControl
andBGControl
. -
To contribute new themes.
-
To contribute new tool button, you may define new ButtonInfos. Note that
Font Awesome
icons are available in button icon! -
To contribute new data sets or modification, you may submit data in GSON format!
Build & Debug
Step 1. use npm run build
or gulp build
to build InteractiveGraphBrowser, which generates interactive-graph.js
and interactive-graph.css
in build
dir.
Step 2. open src/test/webapp/example1.html
in Web browser (Google Chrome
, for example).
Build & Release
Step 1. use gulp release
if you want to get a distribution version, which will output examples
and interactive-graph-<VERSION>
in dist
dir.
Step 2. open dist/examples/example1.html
in Web browser.
LICENSE
InteractiveGraph is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License.
Please cite this project as reference if you are to mention it:
InteractiveGraph: a web-based interactive operating framwork for large graph data[EB/OL]. https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph, 2018-09-09
or add following paper as reference:
赵子豪,沈志宏*. 一种适合多元异构图数据管理系统的交互分析框架[J]. 数据分析与知识发现,2019,10(34):37-46.
Furthermore, it is appreciated if you let us know how you use InteractiveGraph in your projects!!! Please fill the use case table (https://github.com/grapheco/InteractiveGraph/wiki/use-case-collection) with your name (github username), organization, and project.