getFeedbackSetExternal not implemented in VerticalConstraintsForSugiyama

[aocenas]

The docs are quite sparse so not sure if this is bug or just something that is not finished yet or maybe I am doing something wrong with the configuration.

When using VerticalConstraintsForSugiyama the layout code calls getFeedbackSetExternal on the constraints object:

msagljs/modules/core/src/layout/layered/layeredLayout.ts

Line 158 in 0777c99

: verticalConstraints.getFeedbackSetExternal(this.IntGraph, this.nodeIdToIndex)

As that call just throws

msagljs/modules/core/src/layout/layered/verticalConstraintsForSugiyama.ts

Line 13 in fe50923

throw new Error('Method not implemented.')

it seems like this is not usable at all. Not sure if this is not supposed to be used or there is something else going on here.

[levnach]

Sorry, it seems you use VerticalConstraints. I have not ported the constraints for Sugiyama scheme at all yet. I do not have the time for it at the moment unfortunately. If more people demand the feature, I will implement it.

[aocenas]

Ah ok yeah that makes sense in that case :D. I am trying to use it for a better layout of a visualization in Grafana grafana/grafana#78957 and I wanted to do some tweaking which now I have to do manually. So it would help us to have some more configuration. If I have some more time I could take a look at what it would entail to port the constraining config from the .Net library but that probably won't be soon.

[levnach]

Maybe you can achieve the effect you want by using edge weights in Sugiyama scheme. Increasing the edge weight might make the edge shorter and even align the source and the target.

A note on porting: I believe GPT-4 would do a very good job converting chunks of C# to TypeScript:-)