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Interactive widgets for Livebook
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lib/kino.ex
defmodule Kino do
@moduledoc ~S'''
Client-driven interactive widgets for Livebook.
Kino is the library used by Livebook to render rich and interactive
outputs directly from your Elixir code.
## Built-in kinos
Kino renders any data structure that implements the `Kino.Render`
protocol, falling back to the `Kernel.inspect/2` representation
whenever an implementation is not available. The data structures
supported by Kino out of the box are:
### Kino.DataTable
`Kino.DataTable` implements a data table output for user-provided
tabular data:
data = [
%{id: 1, name: "Elixir", website: "https://elixir-lang.org"},
%{id: 2, name: "Erlang", website: "https://www.erlang.org"}
]
Kino.DataTable.new(data)
### Kino.ETS
`Kino.ETS` implements a data table output for ETS tables in the
system:
tid = :ets.new(:users, [:set, :public])
Kino.ETS.new(tid)
### Kino.Image
`Kino.Image` wraps binary image content and can be used to render
raw images of any given format:
content = File.read!("/path/to/image.jpeg")
Kino.Image.new(content, "image/jpeg")
### Kino.Markdown
`Kino.Markdown` wraps Markdown content for richer text rendering.
Kino.Markdown.new("""
# Example
A regular Markdown file.
## Code
```elixir
"Elixir" |> String.graphemes() |> Enum.frequencies()
```
## Table
| ID | Name | Website |
| -- | ------ | ----------------------- |
| 1 | Elixir | https://elixir-lang.org |
| 2 | Erlang | https://www.erlang.org |
""")
### Kino.Frame
`Kino.Frame` is a placeholder for static outputs that can
be dynamically updated.
frame = Kino.Frame.new() |> Kino.render()
for i <- 1..100 do
Kino.Frame.render(frame, i)
Process.sleep(50)
end
Also see `Kino.animate/3`.
### User interactions
`Kino.Input` and `Kino.Control` provide a set of widgets for
entering data and capturing user events. See the respective
module documentation for examples.
### All others
All other data structures are rendered as text using Elixir's
`Kernel.inspect/2`.
## Custom kinos
Kino makes it possible to define custom JavaScript powered
kinos, see `Kino.JS` and `Kino.JS.Live` for more details.
'''
import Kernel, except: [inspect: 1]
@type nothing :: :"do not show this result in output"
@doc """
Renders the given term as cell output.
This effectively allows any Livebook cell to have multiple
evaluation results.
"""
@spec render(term()) :: term()
def render(term) do
output = Kino.Render.to_livebook(term)
Kino.Bridge.put_output(output)
term
end
@doc """
Inspects the given term as cell output.
This works essentially the same as `IO.inspect/2`, except it
always produces colored text and respects the configuration
set with `configure/1`.
Opposite to `render/1`, it does not attempt to render the given
term as a kino.
"""
@spec inspect(term(), keyword()) :: term()
def inspect(term, opts \\ []) do
label = if label = opts[:label], do: "#{label}: ", else: ""
{:text, text} = Kino.Output.inspect(term, opts)
output = {:text, label <> text}
Kino.Bridge.put_output(output)
term
end
@doc """
Configures Kino.
The supported options are:
* `:inspect`
They are discussed individually in the sections below.
## Inspect
A keyword list containing inspect options used for printing
usual evaluation results. Defaults to pretty formatting with
a limit of 50 entries.
To show more entries, you configure a higher limit:
Kino.configure(inspect: [limit: 200])
You can also show all entries by setting the limit to `:infinity`,
but keep in mind that for large data structures it is memory-expensive
and is not an advised configuration in this case. Instead prefer
the use of `IO.inspect/2` with `:infinity` limit when needed.
See `Inspect.Opts` for the full list of options.
"""
@spec configure(keyword()) :: :ok
def configure(options) do
Kino.Config.configure(options)
end
@doc ~S"""
Renders a kino that periodically calls the given function
to render a new result.
The callback is run every `interval_ms` milliseconds and receives
the accumulated value. The callback should return either of:
* `{:cont, term_to_render, acc}` - the continue
* `:halt` - to no longer schedule callback evaluation
This function uses `Kino.Frame` as the underlying kino.
It returns nothing (a non-printable result).
## Examples
# Render new Markdown every 100ms
Kino.animate(100, 0, fn i ->
md = Kino.Markdown.new("**Iteration: `#{i}`**")
{:cont, md, i + 1}
end)
"""
@spec animate(
pos_integer(),
term(),
(term() -> {:cont, term(), acc :: term()} | :halt)
) :: nothing()
def animate(interval_ms, acc, fun) do
frame = Kino.Frame.new()
Kino.Frame.periodically(frame, interval_ms, acc, fn acc ->
case fun.(acc) do
{:cont, term, acc} ->
Kino.Frame.render(frame, term)
{:cont, acc}
:halt ->
:halt
end
end)
Kino.render(frame)
nothing()
end
@doc """
Returns a special value that results in no visible output.
"""
@spec nothing() :: nothing()
def nothing() do
:"do not show this result in output"
end
@doc """
Starts a process under the Kino supervisor.
The process is automatically terminated when the current process
terminates or the current cell reevaluates.
"""
@spec start_child(
Supervisor.child_spec()
| {module(), term()}
| module()
) :: DynamicSupervisor.on_start_child()
def start_child(child_spec) do
# Starting a process that calls Kino.start_child/1 in its init
# would block forever, so we don't allow nesting
if Kino.DynamicSupervisor in Process.get(:"$ancestors", []) do
raise ArgumentError,
"could not start #{Kernel.inspect(child_spec)} using Kino.start_child/1," <>
" because the current process has been started with Kino.start_child/1." <>
" Please move the nested start outside and pass the result as an argument to this process"
end
%{start: start} = child_spec = Supervisor.child_spec(child_spec, [])
parent = self()
gl = Process.group_leader()
child_spec = %{child_spec | start: {Kino, :__start_override__, [start, parent, gl]}}
DynamicSupervisor.start_child(Kino.DynamicSupervisor, child_spec)
end
@doc false
def __start_override__({mod, fun, args}, parent, gl) do
# We switch the group leader, so that the newly started
# process gets the same group leader as the caller
initial_gl = Process.group_leader()
Process.group_leader(self(), gl)
try do
{resp, pid} =
case apply(mod, fun, args) do
{:ok, pid} = resp -> {resp, pid}
{:ok, pid, _info} = resp -> {resp, pid}
resp -> {resp, nil}
end
if pid do
Kino.Bridge.reference_object(pid, parent)
Kino.Bridge.monitor_object(pid, Kino.Terminator.cross_node_name(), {:terminate, pid})
end
resp
after
Process.group_leader(self(), initial_gl)
end
end
end