Is there any way to customize Google charts to prevent them from displaying this 'red' message? E.g., silently drawing nothing instead?
There is a bunch of events, methods and tools google charts / visualization offers for customizing error handling, error messages and so on.
For example, see https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/reference#errordisplay or https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/examples#querywrapper
According to what you are asking for, the easiest way would be to simply attach an errorhandler and in that handler, remove the error through google.visualization.errors
.
Like this :
function errorHandler(errorMessage) {
//curisosity, check out the error in the console
console.log(errorMessage);
//simply remove the error, the user never see it
google.visualization.errors.removeError(errorMessage.id);
}
function drawChart(json) {
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(json); //here, JSON is buggy
var options = {
title: 'test'
};
var chart = new google.visualization.LineChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
//attach the error handler here, before draw()
google.visualization.events.addListener(chart, 'error', errorHandler);
chart.draw(data, options);
}
viola! Try add the errorHandler
and google.visualization.events.addListener(chart, 'error', errorHandler);
to your existing code, and see the difference (this is all you need).
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