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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon jupyterlab-contrib

Sending messages

Open jtpio opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

It would be great to be able to send custom messages to the kernel.

We could imagine having a new panel with a few options:

  1. to select the channel (shell, control...)
  2. select the message (request_execute, debug_request and so on)
  3. have a json blob populated with the right schema (based on to step 1 and 2)
  4. click on a "Send" button to send the message
  5. use the existing KernelSpyView to inspect the messages

jtpio avatar Sep 03 '19 13:09 jtpio

We could imagine having a new panel [...]:

I like the idea, but this could probably be a separate extension then? Or would there be some significant overlap with the current codebase?

vidartf avatar Sep 03 '19 14:09 vidartf

If it's in a different extension then is it reasonable to assume users would also expect being able to inspect the messages being sent (which is already handled by the kernel spy).

Maybe as a different plugin otherwise?

jtpio avatar Sep 03 '19 14:09 jtpio

Ah, yeah I guess there is the dist concerns while waiting for a way for jupyterlab extensions to require other extensions (there is a jupyterlab issue about that, but I cannot find it atm).

Maybe as a different plugin otherwise?

I think that would make sense. Possibly the plugins could be split into a file each as well.

vidartf avatar Sep 03 '19 15:09 vidartf

Yes, the related JupyterLab issues are https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/7064 and https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/4245.

jtpio avatar Sep 03 '19 21:09 jtpio