perspective-viewer 4.5.0

A data visualization and analytics component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.
Documentation
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use perspective_client::config::ViewConfigUpdate;
use perspective_client::{ViewWindow, clone};
use perspective_js::utils::{ApiError, ApiFuture};

use crate::session::Session;

/// Get all unique column values for a given column name.
///
/// Use the `.to_csv()` method, as I suspected copying this large string
/// once was more efficient than copying many smaller strings, and
/// string copying shows up frequently when doing performance analysis.
///
/// TODO Does not work with expressions yet.
pub async fn get_column_values(session: &Session, column: String) -> Result<Vec<String>, ApiError> {
    let expressions = Some(session.get_view_config().expressions.clone());
    let config = ViewConfigUpdate {
        group_by: Some(vec![column]),
        columns: Some(vec![]),
        expressions,
        ..ViewConfigUpdate::default()
    };

    let table = session
        .get_table()
        .ok_or_else(|| ApiError::from("No table set"))?;
    let view = table.view(Some(config.clone())).await?;
    let csv = view.to_csv(ViewWindow::default()).await?;

    clone!(view);
    ApiFuture::spawn(async move {
        view.delete().await?;
        Ok(())
    });

    let res = csv
        .lines()
        .map(|val| {
            if val.starts_with('\"') && val.ends_with('\"') {
                (val[1..val.len() - 1]).to_owned()
            } else {
                val.to_owned()
            }
        })
        .skip(2)
        .collect::<Vec<String>>();
    Ok(res)
}