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Expr does not work for padding properties

See original GitHub issue

{
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v4.json",
  "params": [
    {
      "name": "l", 
      "value": 0,
      "bind": { "input": "range", "name": "l", "max": 50 }
    },
    {
      "name": "r", 
      "value": 0,
      "bind": { "input": "range", "name": "r", "max": 50 }
    }
  ],
  "width": 300,
  "height": 300,
  "autosize": {"type": "fit"},
  "padding": {"left": {"expr":"l"}, "right": {"expr":"r"}, "top": 5, "bottom": 5},
  "data": {
    "url": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-datasets@2.1/data/cars.json"
  },
  "encoding": {
    "x": {"field": "Horsepower", "bin": true},
    "y": {"aggregate": "count"}
  },
  "mark": "bar"
}

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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domoritzcommented, Apr 28, 2021

I see. I would say for now ask people to write expressions or values but not have expressions inside values. We can enforce that through the schema/types.

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domoritzcommented, Apr 28, 2021

Thanks for the note. I think we can always make specific exceptions where we support objects with expressions in them.