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Plotly.animate doesn't unset attributes

See original GitHub issue

Here’s a codepen that illustrates the issue.

I expected that:

    Plotly.animate(gd, {
        traces: [0],
        data: [{
            "marker.opacity": null
        }]
    }, {
        transition: {
            easing:"cubic-in-out",
            duration: 500        
        }
    });

would unset `gd.data[0].marker.opacity.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:10 (10 by maintainers)

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n-riescocommented, Mar 30, 2017

It doesn’t break anything for me at the moment. I’ve only noticed that Plotly.validate(gd.data, gd.layout) would return an error.

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etpinardcommented, Mar 30, 2017

@n-riesco @rreusser this situation is similar to https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/1410. I have no strong opinion here to be honest. I can think of situation where pruning make sense and others that don’t. Better yet, maybe as @n-riesco suggested yesterday we should expose some .getAttribute method on Plotly where it would be easier to guarantee the result as opposed to making users dig into gd.data / gd._fullData etc …

Moreover, @n-riesco’s point about Plotly.validate is fair. Maybe we should make Plotly.validate skip keys linked to nulls entirely.