Reused filters

[FrnchFrgg]

You could put all reused filters in an array once at the root, the extra ones inside the entity and then load them via filters: $ex [...get('reused_filters'), ...get('.extra_filters')] (note the dot on extra_filters, which makes it relative to that part of the yaml)

This does not seem to work. In fact, even using

type: custom:plotly-graph
entities:
  - entity: "sun.sun"
    filters: '$ex [ { "map_y": "0" } ]'
hours_to_show: 24
refresh_interval: 10

does not seem to work. The filters member seems correctly computed and passed to plotly itself (as any member of data would be), but it looks like it does not influence plotly-graph-card, in that the filters themselves are not evaluated.

[dbuezas]

This is because the result of functions is not traversed deeper by the parser

Basically the `else if` should be only an `if` But this is actually on purpose for performance reasons: a function may return an array with data and passing that through the parser/evaluator again is too slow. One could check if the result is a large array (e.g >100 elements) and only stop in that situation.

[FrnchFrgg]

I understand, but a) users are not aware that filters are implemented using universal functions, so that feels strange b) you advised yourself to use an $ex to generated filters in the question about augmenting filters instead of replacing them. It thus seems that the consequences of limiting further parsing of function results are non-trivial even for you.

[dbuezas]

indeed