Pluto.jl: Feature Request: support open notebooks directly

[Roger-luo]

It would be convenient if Pluto could support an argument in run to open a local notebook directly.

[fonsp]

Good idea! This would also be useful when hosting pluto notebooks online - sneak peek

[Roger-luo]

I find maybe both create and open notebooks would be more useful, if these APIs are exported.

@fonsp I'm wondering if there are some internal function I could use in Julia to open a notebook directly (e.g how the web frontend create and open a notebook?) I guess I could look from there.

[fonsp]

Hi! The internal functions are there, but it's not a one-liner yet.

This is the code that opens a notebook from a path:
https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/blob/master/src/webserver/Static.jl#L69-L75

[fonsp]

Check out the master version of Pluto, and:

import Pluto
s = Pluto.ServerSession()
Pluto.SessionActions.open(s, "~/hello.jl");
Pluto.run(; session=s)

[AshtonSBradley]

Sorry if this is premature (am on julia 1.6), but just FYI this doesn't work for me. The Pluto.SessionActions.open(s, "~/hello.jl") just generates a screen dump of all text in the notebook. Then Pluto.run(;session=s) just opens as usual, i.e. it doesn't open a specific notebook.

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.6.0-DEV.771
Commit 0336f672db (2020-08-30 01:07 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8259U CPU @ 2.30GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-9.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 4

(@v1.6) pkg> st Pluto
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.6/Project.toml`
  [c3e4b0f8] Pluto v0.11.10 `https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl.git#master`

[fonsp]

All of this is intended behavior - the main point was that if you go to localhost:1234 after this code, you'll see that the notebook is already running.

If you want the direct link:
"http://localhost:1234/edit?id=$(notebook.notebook_id)"

[AshtonSBradley]

ah! that's what I want, thank you!