Deprecate transforms in v2

[archmoj]

We should remove transforms from the bundles but keep a way to re-include them.

[nicolaskruchten]

Let's hold off on this one until we can talk about it next week

[nicolaskruchten]

I think we should not change anything, because we have not been advertising them as "deprecated" but we can start in v2. so I'll remove them from docs and we can mark those attributes as "deprecated" in the schema, but keep them in all the same places they are now bundle-wise

[archmoj]

The transforms are a registered method (function) on the plotly API.
It appears we cannot "deprecate" transforms similar to other data attributes by putting it in a _deprecated container.
So I am wondering what is the expected behaviour for deprecating transforms?
Just changing the description similar to what we did for heatmapgl is enough?
Should Plotly.validate pass or it does not matter while there is #4759 bug?!

[nicolaskruchten]

Yes, including some deprecation text in the schema attributes is enough for me.

[Domino987]

@nicolaskruchten Hello, i was wondering why the transformers were deprecated and if there is a way to include a similar function (filtering data above a threshold) nativly with plotly?

There is of course the possibility to filter the data outside of plotly, but I would assume it could be faster to do it within the lib?

[chadamski]

@nicolaskruchten Hello, i was wondering why the transformers were deprecated and if there is a way to include a similar function (filtering data above a threshold) nativly with plotly?

There is of course the possibility to filter the data outside of plotly, but I would assume it could be faster to do it within the lib?

I'm also looking for some guidance on why transforms are being deprecated and what the recommended alternate method of handling will be.

[andoks]

I would also like to know what alternatives there are to the transform functionality

Also I believe this relates to the deprecation notices change in the docs plotly/graphing-library-docs@8b334a9