Canvas - Missing JSON Canvas compatibility

Bug reports
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1

Consider the following JSON Canvas-compatible code:

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "type": "text",
      "x": 100,
      "y": 100,
      "width": 200,
      "height": 50,
      "text": "1"
    },
    {
      "id": "2",
      "type": "text",
      "x": 500,
      "y": 100,
      "width": 200,
      "height": 50,
      "text": "2"
    }
  ],
  "edges": [
  {
      "id": "edge1",
      "fromNode": "1",
      "toNode": "2",
      "label": "description"
  }
  ],
  "metadata": {}
}

Steps to reproduce

  1. Save it as .canvas file and put it in the vault folder
  2. Open the file with Obsidian

Expected result

It should render a graph with 2 nodes and an edge between them.

Actual result

It doesn’t render the graph

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.6.7
	Installer version: v1.6.5
	Operating system: #104-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 9 15:25:40 UTC 2024 5.15.0-94-generic
	Login status: not logged in
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 1
	Plugins enabled: 1
		1: Advanced Canvas v3.0.3

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Additional information

Possible solution

Test for compatibility with JSON Canvas spec.

Particularly, if you remove the edge from the list, then it renders fine.

2

It appears that properties fromSide and toSide are necessary.

Changing the edge properties to this, renders it fine:

  "edges": [
    {
      "id": "edge1",
      "fromNode": "1",
      "toNode": "2",
      "fromSide": "right",
      "toSide": "left",
      "label": "description"
    }
  ],

However, according to the version 1.0 spec, these fields are optional , so this behavior shouldn’t be exhibited.

3

thanks. Either we made the spec wrong or there’s a bug in the app.