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I'm looking to format my data in which I replace numbers with icons.
As far as I can tell Google do not currently have a formatter to do so:
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/reference.html#formatters
There is a brief mention within the documents about custom formatters, but I cannot seem to find any documents on how to begin writting a custom formatters.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
There is a similar question on StackOverflow: Write a custom formatter for Google Charts Api . However the question was resolved simply using the built-in formatters (which I don't think I can use).
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I don't think you'll be able to make the current formatters to do what you want, but you should be able to make your own formatter easily enough. I put together iconFormatter below for a sample - this could be adjusted to do whatever you need really.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('visualization', '1', {packages: ['table']});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/**
* Gviz icon formatter
* @param {Object<Number, String>} Map of numbers to icon URIs
*/
var iconFormatter = function(iconMap) {
this.iconMap = iconMap;
}
/**
* Formats a gviz DataTable column
* @param {Object} dt DataTable to format
* @param {Number} column index number
*/
iconFormatter.prototype.format = function(dt, column) {
for (var i=0;i<dt.getNumberOfRows();i++) {
var formattedValue = this.iconMap[dt.getValue(i, column)];
var htmlString = "<img src="+formattedValue+" />";
dt.setFormattedValue(i, column, htmlString);
// underlying value preserved
console.log(dt.getValue(i, column));
}
}
</script>
<script>
function drawVisualization() {
// Create and populate the data table.
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
data.addColumn('string', 'Name');
data.addColumn('number', 'Height');
data.addRows(3);
data.setCell(0, 0, 'Tong Ning mu');
data.setCell(1, 0, 'Huang Ang fa');
data.setCell(2, 0, 'Teng nu');
data.setCell(0, 1, 174);
data.setCell(1, 1, 523);
data.setCell(2, 1, 86);
var iconMap = {
174: "http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/buddyicons/[email protected]?1149480603",
523: "http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/buddyicons/[email protected]?1129271399",
86: "http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2698/buddyicons/[email protected]?1303489082"
// other numbers
}
// Create and draw the visualization.
visualization = new google.visualization.Table(document.getElementById('table'));
// apply our formatter, just like normal
var formatter = new iconFormatter(iconMap);
formatter.format(data, 1);
// allow html, just like any html formatter will require
visualization.draw(data, {allowHtml: true});
}
google.setOnLoadCallback(drawVisualization);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="table"></div>
</body>
</html>
Hope that helps.
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The built-in DataTable formatters currently only allow customization with formatting strings (patterns). Customization with a callback function is not supported. Here is a formatter class that supports a callback function.
/**
* Custom formatter class for Google Visualization DataTable
* Can be used like a built-in formatters when they are not enough.
* https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/reference#formatters
* Changes the displayed/formatted value. The value itself remains unchanged.
*
* @param function() custom value conversion function
* this function
* - takes one value as input (the original value) and
* - returns the formatted value
*/
var CustomFormatter = function(formatValue) {
this.formatValue = formatValue;
}
/**
* Formats a Google DataTable column
* @param {Object} dt DataTable to format
* @param {Number} column index number
*/
CustomFormatter.prototype.format = function(dt, column) {
for (var i = 0; i < dt.getNumberOfRows(); i++) {
var value = dt.getValue(i, column);
dt.setFormattedValue(i, column, this.formatValue(value));
}
}
This class can be used like the built-in formatter functions, but with a callback function in the constructor, like this one that converts a number to HH:MM:SS
var customFormatter = new CustomFormatter(function(value) {
var hours = parseInt(value / 3600) % 24;
var minutes = parseInt(value / 60) % 60;
var seconds = value % 60;
return (hours < 10 ? "0" + hours : hours) +
":" + (minutes < 10 ? "0" + minutes : minutes) +
":" + (seconds < 10 ? "0" + seconds : seconds);
});
customFormatter.format(dataTable, 1);
Here's the working demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/o5tdt2r8/10/
Alternatively use addColumn in a DataView, as documented in an other answer.
Thanks to @oli's for the original answer. I separated the custom callback formatting function from the generic formatter.
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