[annotator-dev] Hide annotator and reload annotations

Fri Feb 14 22:11:13 UTC 2014

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Steph Skardal <steph at endpoint.com> wrote:

> On 02/14/2014 02:11 AM, Riccardo Tasso wrote:
>
>> it would be nice having something like this:
>>
>> $(button).on('click', function() {
>>
>>    var text = $(this.element).find('.text').first();
>>    if(text.annotator == undefined) {  // everytime I turn on I reload
>> annotations
>>       text.annotator();
>>       text.annotator('addPlugin', 'MyAnnotatorPlugin');
>>       ...
>>    } else {
>>        text.annotator.destroy();
>>        // at this point text.annotator is undefined
>>    }
>> });
>>
>
>
> +1 on this request

This should work if you spell it `text.annotator('destroy')`.
But see this caveat: https://github.com/okfn/annotator/issues/265

I'm strongly considering that should deprecate the jquery interface for v2.
There's simply no good reason I see for it and it destroys introspection
IMO. Having the annotator object and being able to enumerate its methods
one can inspect the surface API in their browser dev tools.
`.annotator('<method_name>', <params ...>)` is unnecessary.

Annotator does store the Annotator instance object under the jquery data
key 'annotator'. So you might consider instead something like this instead:

```
var text = $(this.element).find('.text').first()
    , annotator = text.data('annotator')
    ;

if(text.data('annotator') == undefined) {
    annotator = new Annotator(text);
    annotator.addPlugin('MyAnnotatorPlugin');
} else {
    annotator.destroy();
}
```
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