Autoplot Application (#{tag})

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Autoplot allows plotting of data from many data sources, including remote CDF files and OpenDAP servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension, data are loaded into the internal data model. Data are then displayed by guessing the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a reasonable, useful view of the data. Data can then be additionally processed with other operations like smooth and FFT, and Jython scripting provides a capable programming environment.

This is the Autoplot v2021a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 8 is now required.

Run with 1GB of memory to support 32-bit Java versions, and run off of ci-pw build server: autoplot_1GB.jnlp

Bugfixes (2022-01-19 r26404):

• 2429: don't do the automatic DEPEND_0 when the column read is column 0. Thanks, Sadie!
• rfe651: orbit:/tmp/orbitsfile.txt:mms-1 is no longer interpreted as range. This is only supported with numeric orbit numbers.
• rfe651: pressing the events list green play button will always re-read the events definitions from the file. Thanks, Ivar!
• Trim whitespace at end of Jython code when showing differences, because on Windows every line was marked as changed on Bill's computer.
• rfe363: various code fragments (else, subscript, etc) were handled improperly, causing completions to fail.
• rfe363: bug where line was included in simplify for completions, but shouldn't have been, which caused completions to fail.
• 2425: fill-to-zero mode with 691200 points showed that reduced version wasn't used.
• bugfix: color scatter mode didn't listen to the log property of the colorbar. Thanks, Sadie!
• some thread use clean up after seeing issues with Java 17.
• 2424: set the application when running custom actions in the editor, when working with multiple windows. Thanks, Sadie!
• 2421: add action to show simplified script to get parameters.
• annotation editor dialog now has GrannyTextEditor button.
• GitCommand assumed it could write to /tmp/, which isn't working on a Mac.

Older Bugfixes (2021-12-11 r26317):

• 2419: only use this logic for http and https, since jar:... may be used to load files from within the jar.
• new code to allow internal tests to have short names caused URIs with spaces to break.
• 2420: Verify that CVE-2021-44228 does not affect Autoplot. See demoApacheLog4j.jy
• script editor bookmarks are updated after entering the bookmarks editor.
• 2419: getTemporaryFile will check with the FileSystem API for some URIs, supporting bookmarks on a GitHub server.
• when a dataset without timetags has a dataset with timetags appended to it, it is no longer a runtime error. Thanks, Sadie!
• Corrections to psym painters in granny text renderer. Thanks, Sadie!
• Single component of CDF variable could not be selected when timetags were Epoch16. Thanks, Allison!
• GUI for inserting plot symbol into text didn't set size parameter correctly! Thanks, Sadie!
• Desktop sampler had a new bug which made its result gray. Thanks, Sadie!
• Manual tickValues are formatted more precisely now, removing extraneous ".0". Thanks, Ali!
• rte_0404633081_20211201: ctrl-Z when nothing had been done cause runtime exception.
• rte280945130: NullPointerException when multiple variables were specified and one wasn't in the CDF file. Thanks, Danielle M!
• H_lo was used as the default name when CDF arg_0 and id where missing, causing great confusion. Thanks, Jeremy!
• Juno TCA didn't subset when requiresInterval and item_00 was found in DSDF.
• make the "width is not finite" message more precise by including the code issuing the message.
• bugfix in FITS reader, where data without units would cause NullPointerException.
• bugfix in automatic aggregation of "$Y/$m/$d/$Y$m$dT$H_all.csv"
• LanlNNRebinner would improperly clip the last partial dataset column because of bug in renderer. Thanks, Sadie!
• orbit renderer with ticks along the path didn't have the sloppy units logic. Thanks, Sadie!
• Move images from org.autoplot.datasource to resources to reduce clutter.
• setDepend1Cadence filter editor had runtime error.
• rfe758: tickValues GUI had a bug with repeat every. Thanks, Sadie!

Features:

• AutoplotServlet's ScriptGUIServlet now has previous/next buttons on timerange GUI.
• 363: support completions on object within array, like dom.plots[2].*
• improvements to Jython to Java code converter.
• introduce readConfiguration command, which reads configuration into map of name/value pairs to help with scripting and supports %{PWD}.
• Introduce pull and push to GitCommand, looking forward to when pure-Java git library is introduced.
• Scroll to where the Jython error occurred, in addition to showing the red squiggly.

Less recent features:

• 762: Aggregation works with JSON and XML files.
• 729: PDS4 checks for Special_Constants in label file which point out fill values and valid ranges.
• 729: lblx extension for future PDS4 files is handled.
• 764: completion-based GUIs using arg_0 can specify a label for arg_0 now.
• 762: Peek inside JSON and XML files to identify schema when identifying data source.
• Length digitizer allows 1-9 keys to specify a divisor, so that repeating signals can be measured more accurately.
• junoPJ_2hr orbits added to TimeRangeTool.
• HTML table source supports commas in fields like "$1,234.00"

Known issues:

• see Source Forge
• Bugs often have a four-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/bugs/<ID>/.
• Features typically have a three-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/<ID>/.

This completes the feature set for the new production branch. No major features will be added before branching this version. A production branch will be started in a couple of weeks, and the "Start Autoplot" link at the top of autoplot.org will run this version. Feedback on the function and quality of this release is greatly appreciated!

Data is input from:

• ASCII files (.dat,.txt)
• CSV files (.csv)
• Binary files (.bin)
• CDF files(.cdf)
• Excel spread sheets (.xls)
• das2Streams (.d2s or .das2Stream)
• ViRBO's TSDS server
• CDAWeb data server (vap+cdaweb:)
• das2servers (vap+das2server:)
• QStreams (.qds), QDataSet on a das2Stream
• Plasma Wave Group das2 Server
• NetCDF files (.nc,.ncml)
• HDF5 files (.h5,.hdf5)
• DODs servers (.dds)
• Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
• Fits Format Files
• Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
• Wav audio files (.wav)

This is not complete, and limitations include:

• Quantities of rank 3 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,pitch) are plotted by slicing.
• Quantities of rank 4 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,azimuth,sector) are plotted by slicing twice.

autoplot.org is the wiki website, and contains more information than this launch page.