[ZEPPELIN-1345] Create a custom matplotlib backend that natively supports inline plotting in a python interpreter cell

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: python-interpreter
• Assignee: Alex Goodman
• Reporter: Alex Goodman
• Created: 18/Aug/16 18:43
• Updated: 07/May/17 16:43
• Resolved: 08/Nov/16 15:20

Description

This is a sub-task for ZEPPELIN-1344. The deliverable will be a custom matplotlib backend which natively supports inline plotting in zeppelin notebook cells (for the python and eventually pyspark interpreters). More information regarding matplotlib backends can be found here:

http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html#what-is-a-backend

The focus of this issue will be getting support for plotting just static images similar to those generated in a Jupyter notebook cell when %matplotlib inline is used. Getting support for more interactive plotting will also require a custom backend that will be based off of this one.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ZEPPELIN-1344 Improving matplotlib integration with zeppelin
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1534