Decimation won't work when passing my own array.

[StefanNedelchev]

I've been having issues trying to get decimation to work and for a long time and I thought that my config was wrong. At some point I decided to take a look at the docs again and set all necessary options as described in the requirements, and also providing a prepared data with parsing set to false. I still couldn't get decimation to work.

I tried to make a very basic chart implementation in a simple HTML file in order to eliminate the possibility that something in my app is causing the trouble and I still get the same result. Today I tried the exact same example file but instead of using my test dataset, I copied the code from the official decimation example which dynamically generates the dataset from a single timestamp. Surprisingly for me - it worked. If I use the code from the example, decimation works, but as soon as I pass my own data array - it doesn't work.

For more information - I use a linear time scale with timestamps for the x axis. I use the date-fns adapter and for a long time I have been thinking that my problem was either in the date adapter or the zoom plugin. But as it turned out - both plugins are fine and don't break decimation at all.

So my question is - what is going on? My suspicion is in the last requirement for decimation - The dataset object must be mutable. If that's the case, can someone explain what I'm doing wrong? I thought that objects and arrays in JavaScript are mutable, even if they are defined as constants. I tried using let and var but the result was still the same.

[kurkle]

How many points does your dataset have and what is the chart width?

[StefanNedelchev]

How many points does your dataset have and what is the chart width?

My mocked dataset has a 1000 points but the width of the chart is responsive. However, decimation doesn't seem to occur on any window size.

EDIT: Alright, I tried reducing the window size of the window even more and I noticed decimation happening below 249px (it was configured as follows: lttb decimation with 50 smaples)

[kurkle]

You need points 4 times the width for it to decimate.

[kurkle]

#9327 will allow configuring that

[StefanNedelchev]

You need points 4 times the width for it to decimate.

What about cases where I have multiple datasets on the same x axis? If I have total points of let's say 4000 but they are distributed in 20 smaller datasets (in a similar way as displayed in the screenshot). Is decimation calculated per dataset or for the entire axis?

[kurkle]

per dataset

[StefanNedelchev]

Alright, so having in mind that in my case I don't have enough points for decimation and #9327 will allow us to chose a specific treshold, I will close this issue.