add_text not working with tensorboard > 1.6

First I just want to say this is a fantastic library! Really useful work.

Second, I just tried add_text and found that the results come up blank in tensorboard >= 1.7, but it works with tensorboard 1.6.

I installed the tensorboardX package from source.

I’m not sure if this is a tensorboardX issue or a tensorboard issue, but I thought it was worth bringing up.

Thanks, Tom

[lanpa]

@teffland @janstria You can replace continue with pass https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/blob/75fd16b9c7957057924d586507fe928ebc2e75ab/tensorboard/plugins/text/text_plugin.py#L285 for a temporary fix (in your pip install). I will rewrite add_text in accordance with the new tensorboard plugin API.

[TheShadow29]

EDIT: I fixed it by using pip install tensorboardX --upgrade. It installed tensorboardX 1.4 and now the text is displayed.

@lanpa I can confirm @rivaud bug report. Here is the code

In [1]: from tensorboardX import SummaryWriter

In [2]: writer = SummaryWriter(log_dir='logs')

In [3]: writer.add_text('MyTag', 'This text should be displayed', 0)

In [4]: writer.close()

Then I do tensorboard --logdir logs. This is the output I get

My package configs are as follows: (output of conda list | grep tensor) tensorboard 1.9.0 py36_0 conda-forge tensorboardX 1.2 <pip> tensorflow 1.9.0 py36_0 conda-forge tensorflow-base 1.9.0 gpu_py36h6ecc378_0
tensorflow-gpu 1.9.0 hf154084_0

Like @rivaud said, I can see the text inside logs/plugins/tensorboard_text/tensors.json (although with some cryptic things). Not very clear what the bug is. Any help is appreciated.