I finally figured it out!  That was not an easy one.  The issue is with how the Google Graph libraries are initialized/loaded in IRStats2.

I added explicit load and google.charts.setOnLoadCallback functions every time I need to generate charts, rather than assuming that the Google library is loaded before each new google.visulization call, and that solved the problem.  Charts show up consistently and quickly, and I was able to switch to the more recent version of the Google charts library in the process.  In fact, I had to, because only since version 45 are we allowed to call “load” more than once, which is be the case when we generate visualizations of different types on the same page in the ‘more statistics’ sections.  I can prepare a pull request on github for this fix, but which version (I saw an IRStats2 on eprints and eprintsug) of the code on GitHub is the one that’s best/most recent to make the pull request on?   

 

Tomasz

 

 

 

 

Sorry, I provided the wrong line number in the trace, same command, but the one on this line (263):

 

https://github.com/eprints/irstats2/blob/74ce563ff855f7ba9702c4cd98532e95a17166a3/lib/static/_javascript_/auto/90_irstats2.js#L263

 

the call to new google.visulization.DataTable() in EPJS_Stats_GoogleGraph = Class.create(EPJS_Stats,  

 

Tomasz

 

 

 

I’ve been trying to track down a problem with loading of download summary table visualization on abstract pages and I can’t seem to figure it out.

The problem only seems to appear in Google Chrome, on Firefox and Edge all is well.

On Chrome, however, the graph visualizations don’t appear on the abstract pages, most of the time.

Clicking on “Reload” will make it appear every now and again, so the issue is intermittent to some extent; but mostly the loader just keeps spinning and it doesn’t appear.

I have tried to track down the issue, and as far as I see, the XHR call to getData works fine, and data is returned without problems, and passed to the correct functions.

The problem appears right at this line:

 

                   var data = "" google.visualization.DataTable();

 

So line 328 in this file: https://github.com/eprints/irstats2/blob/74ce563ff855f7ba9702c4cd98532e95a17166a3/lib/static/_javascript_/auto/90_irstats2.js#L328

When I put a “Break” (in the debugger in the browser) on this line, I see that it is reached, and the retrieved data (about downloads) is there in the function, but the browser almost never comes back from this line and reaches no subsequent break points. Sometimes it does come back, reaches the next line, and then stops, and then sometimes, it does keep going to the end and then the graph does display.

 

I tried disabling the CoreRecommender, as there are some warnings in Chrome about SameSite settings/cookies on that (not sure what that is all about either), in case that was the cause, but it didn’t change anything.  I also tried changing how Google Charts / JSAPI is included/loaded, the version number of the library, but nothing seems to fix it.

 

Any ideas?  Do you display a chart of downloads on abstract pages, and is it working well in Chrome? 

 

Tomasz

 

 

 

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