Not my candidate in this case :)

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Dieter Tremel <tre...@tremel-computer.de>
wrote:

> Unfortunately not, as expected. The FAQ say:
>
> > Can I use charts offline?
> > Your users' computers must have access to https://www.gstatic.com/
> charts/loader.js in order to use the interactive features of Google
> Charts. This is because the visualization libraries that your page requires
> are loaded dynamically before you use them. The code for loading the
> appropriate library is part of the included script, and is called when you
> invoke the google.charts.load() method. Our terms of service do not allow
> you to download the google.charts.load or google.visualization code to use
> offline.
>
>
>
> Am 09.08.2017 um 09:39 schrieb Maxim Solodovnik:
> > I, personally, don't mind if you will change existing googlecharts module
> > with new one and provide reasonable number of examples
> >
> > BTW is there an option to have "local google charts" i.e. without
> > contacting external CDNs?
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Dieter Tremel <tre...@tremel-computer.de
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Am 07.08.2017 um 13:31 schrieb Maxim Solodovnik:
> >>> Maybe it would be possible to update current version?
> >>> I'm afraid having 2 different Google Chart modules would be too much :)
> >>
> >>
> >> You are right, and I had a look at the existing module. But the Google
> >> API is so much different, that I decided to make a cut.
> >>
> >> Also my intention was to make a thin layer. Since the new API relies
> >> heavily on building nested options, the realization with HashMap and
> >> JSON makes it possible to read the google docs and build the options a
> >> java way, or even direct from JSON Strings. IMHO it makes no sense to
> >> hide a complex JS-API behind a complex Java-API, so you always have to
> >> know the original API *and* the Java API very well for your needs. If
> >> can do this with building the structure with well known classes like
> >> HashMap and JSON you know by heart, you mostly have to read only the
> >> Google docs. If you miss the strong type checking, of course you will
> >> not like this way.
> >>
> >>> BTW there are also
> >>> https://github.com/wicketstuff/core/tree/master/jqplot-parent for
> chart
> >>> drawing :)
> >>
> >> Good point, I didn't know this, perhaps I preferred SVG graphics over
> >> canvas drawing and kicked jqplot early. I think the combination of
> >> WebMarkupContainer and Behavior of jqplot could be the right way for my
> >> lib too and could solve my Ajax question. I will try that.
> >>
> >> Dieter
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Dieter Tremel <
> tre...@tremel-computer.de
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello wicket-team,
> >>>>
> >>>> for a project visualizing metar weather data I used wicket-charts
> based
> >>>> on Highcharts in a former version
> >>>> (http://tremel-computer.no-ip.org:8080/metarstation/). Due to
> licensing
> >>>> of Highcharts I decided to move to Google charts, but found the
> >>>> implementation in wicketstuf outdated, since it depends on the image
> >>>> chart API, which is deprecated since 2012.
> >>>>
> >>>> So I wrote a Google Charts component based on the actual API. I am
> >>>> pleased with it, perhaps it could be helpful for other developers, so
> >>>> I'd like to give it to wicketstuff.
> >>>>
> >>>> It is rather lightweight, just enough Java to render the necessary
> >>>> JavaScript to the page header without knowledge of JavaScript.
> Knowledge
> >>>> of the Google API is needed to use it, it does not hide anything of
> the
> >>>> API, it should be quite feature complete. It is based at many points
> on
> >>>> org.apache.wicket.ajax.json and allows the user to build Java-Objects
> >>>> from compact JSON-Strings too, for example look at the essential class
> >>>> ChartOptions. Most of the classes are easy to understand with
> knowledge
> >>>> of the Google Charts API, since they are counterparts of the structure
> >>>> there. Only OptionHelper as container for convenience methods is a bit
> >>>> clumsy, but I have a different solution as a builder with a fluent
> >>>> interface in mind. gchart is actually used in a new branch of my
> weather
> >>>> app and does it's job there well.
> >>>>
> >>>> Perhaps you can have a look at it, if you like it, we can integrate it
> >>>> in wicketstuff. The ZIP in the attachment has already the structure
> with
> >>>> parent, lib and examples. I tried to write useful JavaDoc and some
> basic
> >>>> unit tests. The example is a quickstart giving two charts on one page,
> >>>> first one simple like Googles's Getting Started, the other more
> complex
> >>>> with a overview how to use the lib's features.
> >>>>
> >>>> Three issues (see TODO lines integrated in the source) are existing,
> but
> >>>> two are small, not blocking. The essential one is if the rendering of
> >>>> JavaScript in Chart#renderHead(final IHeaderResponse response) is
> >>>> sufficient for refreshing the chart by AJAX, I am not sure if. You can
> >>>> decide this in a second, I believe, and give me some hints to make the
> >>>> chart AJAX ready.
> >>>>
> >>>> I first wrote to Martin Grigorov since he helped me long ago to
> >>>> contribute a bit to wicketstuff. He told me he is on vacation and I
> >>>> should repeat the mail to the list.
>
>


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WBR
Maxim aka solomax

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