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Created February 5, 2020 03:40
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invalidation of Jupyter notebook cells
// Find deepest DOM ancestor that does not change on reexecute
const findParentOutputDiv = (el) => {
let candidate = el;
while (candidate) {
candidate = candidate.parentElement
if (candidate.className === 'output') {
return candidate;
}
}
throw Error("parent output div not found");
}
// Find shallowest DOM ancestor that is removed on delete
const findParentCell = (el) => {
let candidate = el;
while (candidate) {
candidate = candidate.parentElement
if (candidate.classList.contains('cell')) {
return candidate;
}
}
throw Error("cell not found not found");
}
const onCellReexecuteOrDelete = (element, cb) => {
const outputDiv = findParentOutputDiv(element);
const cellDiv = findParentCell(element);
const notebookContainer = cellDiv.parentElement;
let onEither = () => { throw Error('callback not initialized yet'); }
const reexecuteDetector = function(mutationsList, observer) {
for(let mutation of mutationsList) {
if (mutation.type === 'childList') {
onEither('cell reexecute');
return;
}
}
};
const cellDeleteDetector = function(mutationsList, observer) {
for (let mutation of mutationsList) {
if (mutation.type === 'childList') {
for (let node of mutation.removedNodes) {
if (node === cellDiv) {
onEither('cell delete')
return;
}
}
}
}
};
const outputMutationObserver = new MutationObserver(reexecuteDetector);
const notebookMutationObserver = new MutationObserver(cellDeleteDetector);
onEither = (reason) => {
outputMutationObserver.disconnect();
notebookMutationObserver.disconnect();
cb(reason);
}
outputMutationObserver.observe(outputDiv, { childList: true });
notebookMutationObserver.observe(notebookContainer, { childList: true });
}
window.onCellReexecuteOrDelete = onCellReexecuteOrDelete;
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