Feature request: Add switch to turn off display of datatypes

[alanruttenberg]

Most of the time I don't need the datatype information and having it displayed distracts the eye. I'd be happy with a defaults switch, but another option would be to add a small checkbox to enable or disable showing them.

[LaurensRietveld]

The proper way to change the displayed text is to overwrite the YASR.plugins.table.defaults.getCellContent function (see http://yasr.yasgui.org/doc/). But something which is easier, is to add a css entry: td sup {display:none;}, which hides all the datatype information for you

[alanruttenberg]

Yes, that's what I did, copying and modifying the base code. But I thought it would be better built-in as it took some effort to understand the code enough to be able to do this. Also, I wasn't sure where to get the helper functions (I'm not familiar with how the whole module system works) so landed up copying them.

var getCellContentMod = function(yasr, plugin, bindings, sparqlVar, context) {
    var binding = bindings[sparqlVar];
    var value = null;
    if (binding.type == "uri") {
        var title = null;
        var href = binding.value;
        var visibleString = href;  
        if (context.usedPrefixes) {
            for (var prefix in context.usedPrefixes) {
                if (visibleString.indexOf(context.usedPrefixes[prefix]) == 0) {
                    visibleString = prefix + ':' + href.substring(context.usedPrefixes[prefix].length);
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        if (plugin.options.mergeLabelsWithUris) {
            var postFix = (typeof plugin.options.mergeLabelsWithUris == "string"? plugin.options.mergeLabelsWithUris: "Label");
            if (bindings[sparqlVar + postFix]) {
                visibleString = formatLiteral(yasr, plugin, bindings[sparqlVar + postFix]);
                title = href;
            }
        }
        value = "<a " + (title? "title='" + href + "' ": "") + "class='uri' target='_blank' href='" + href + "'>" + visibleString + "</a>";
    } else {
        value = "<span class='nonUri'>" + formatLiteral(yasr, plugin, binding) + "</span>";
    }
    return "<div>" + value + "</div>";
};

var escapeHtmlEntities= function(unescaped) {
        return unescaped.replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;') ;
}

var formatLiteral = function(yasr, plugin, literalBinding) {
    return(escapeHtmlEntities(literalBinding.value));
}

YASGUI.YASR.plugins.table.defaults.getCellContent=getCellContentMod;

Best, Alan

[LaurensRietveld]

My comment was submitted accidentally before I finished. An alternative to your approach, would be to use css as follows: td sup {display:none;}, which hides all the datatype information for you

[alanruttenberg]

oh, that's better :)