Edge Label derived from Attribute

[Benjamin Klatt <klatt AT fzi.de>]

Dear all,

 

I would like to work with a graph with edges storing a custom attribute. Now, I would like to use the value of this attribute as a label in the graph viewer. If the attribute is null, the label of the “ui.label” attribute should be used as it is by default.

 

I checked working with a derived Node class but none of the following is possible:

-        getAttribute(key) to customize the behavior if the key is “ui.label” or “label”

-        getLabel(key) is also a wrapper for getAttribute(key)

 

I understood, that the GraphicNode respectively the GraphicElement class read all attributes at once to pick up the “ui.label”/”label” one.

I don’t want to override the getAttributes() method in my custom node type to manipulate the returned list because I am not sure if this might become a performance issue.

 

So can you give any best practice how to modify the getLabel() method of the GraphicElement class to provide a custom behavior?

When I call graph.display() I do not see any hook to influence the behavior.

 

Thanks in advanced and all the best

Benjamin

 

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Dipl.-Inform. Benjamin Klatt

Software Engineering (SE)

 

FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik

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klatt AT fzi.de

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