Calling to_dict() early prevents to_python() late

[mccalluc]

in imaging_builders.py:

        vc = self._setup_view_config_raster(vc, dataset)
        conf = vc.to_dict()
        # Don't want to render all layers
        del conf["datasets"][0]["files"][0]["options"]["renderLayers"]
        return get_conf_cells(
            conf, f'TODO: Confirm that this notebook works! {type(self).__name__}')

The problem is that at this point, conf isn't really a Vitessce view config object: It's just a dict, so we can't call to_python on it to make a notebook.

• Is there some way to build the conf so that it doesn't have the stuff we don't want?
• If that's hard, how bad would it be if we left the view conf intact?

Chuck:

Do you know if there’s a way to construct the Vitessce conf so it doesn’t have the renderLayers to begin with? Maybe that would require a change in the vitessce-python?

If that’s not feasible, maybe we do just dump the JSON to the notebook, since to_python can’t be used on a regular dict. I don’t think that would be the end of the world.

Ilan:

I think that would require a change, but we may have added the feature and then never updated things here. I’d have to check.

So yes this would require a change to Vitessce python. It adds all the images right now and is hard coded to do so