Cannot open .vl.json in Notebook

[ssharif6]

When exploring a dataset using Voyager, you can export the state to untitled.vl.json. However, if you export multiple states of Voyager, it generates file names with untitled.vl1.json that increment with a count. The files that have a number in the vl.json file path cannot be opened in a Notebook.

This works fine with a normal someName.vl.json, but whenever the file suffix is not .vl.json, you can no longer use the Open vl.json file in Notebook function.

[zzhangjii]

Hi, Shaheen, the filename increment with a count should be like 'untitled1.vl.json' since I defined the new file ext to be vl.json. I tried all the export&save buttons and cannot re-produce this error. Could you tell me your operations in detail?

[ssharif6]

Sure. This is how I reproduce the issue

Specify some view within Voyager, and then click Export Voyager as vl.json command. This creates a file untitled.vl.json.

Go back to the Voyager tab, and specify some other view, and then perform the same Export Voyager as vl.json command. This creates a file untitled.vl1.json.

Let me know if you can reproduce!

[zzhangjii]

I re-tried those steps, and the files I got are untitled.vl.jsonand untitled1.vl.json, so I can't reproduce that problem, not sure what happened, but I will double check the code in my git repo

[zzhangjii]

Design changed, now jupyterlab_voyager will no longer auto-create those files on disk.