How to redraw annotation after updating docData

[mindis]

Hi

I have external tagger that updates docData object. How can I refresh visualized annotations after the update?

For example if I execute in chrome developer console
docData.entities.push(["N11", "Name", [[220, 227]]]);
I'd like this new annotation to become visible in browser.

I see that such annotation becomes visible if I add another annotation manually afterwards, but I wish I could refresh annotations automatically.

I've tried to execute window_onload() but that messes up Annotator UI and I can't add other annotations

thanks!

[reckart]

In the original brat, something like this should probably work

dispatcher.post('renderData');

[mindis]

Used the following hack (I think this issue related to #4)

modified index.html line 425 to prevent automating brat display on page load:

docData.entities.push(["N11", "Name", [[220, 227]]]); //add another entity to annotation
localStorage.setItem("docData", JSON.stringify(window.docData)); // save entity in storage
location.reload(); // clear all objects
var docData = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('docData')); //reload docData from storage
window_onload(); //visualise

[shunjizhan]

brat.dispatcher.post('requestRenderData', [docData]);

works for me, where brat is your brat instance