[BUG] Performance of ARCitect GUI goes down massively.

[arendd]

• tested on: [Windows 11 and MacOS]

I started creating some example ARCs and realized that the general performance of the application, e.g. when creating a new contact, adding new tables, switching between fields is becoming very laggy and I just added one study with 130 lines and two assays with around 4000 lines. I takes 5 seconds, sometimes more to change a menu or adding new values.

If it helps I can share the ARC for testing, it is in a private group in the PlantDataHub.

[JonasLukasczyk]

Hi, thank you for posting this. Please share the ARC if possible. To nail down the issue: is the actual ARCitect UI becoming leggy or the SWATE view?

[JonasLukasczyk]

My suspicion is that there is some problem with SWATE. You can test this by opening SWATE in the browser and importing the ISA file you are having trouble with: https://swate-alpha.nfdi4plants.org/.

Please let us know if you see the same problems on the webpage.

[arendd]

What is the difference between ARCitect UI and Swate? I dont use the Swate plugin, just downloaded the ARCitect app (0.0.40/41) and run it in the desktop on Mac an Windows. I attached the ARC. Where is the "load" button on https://swate-alpha.nfdi4plants.org/ ?
fieldphenotypingwheat.zip

[Freymaurer]

Hey! The ARCitect uses Swate to render the individual isa files. Everytime you click on one of the isa files in ARCitect it will load the file in an internal Swate version. In Swate standalone you can edit single files. Can you try to edit the largest of your files in the Swate browser version, so we can narrow down which parts might be too slow? Thank you in advance!

[arendd]

Hey guys, thank you for you help. Unfortunately with https://swate-alpha.nfdi4plants.org/ I can only edit the investigation. How can I add studies and assays? I tried it already with the ARCitect. The Investigaiton is fine, but after adding my studies and assays it become laggy.

[Freymaurer]

You can delete the currently opened investigation with the trash icon on the top rght of the spreadsheet view and then simply upload the correct isa.study file

[arendd]

Okay sorry, was a browser cache problem, did not get the "import file" button. Now it works. I tested two assay files with ~4000 respectively ~8000 lines. Both are laggy. They can be loaded, but then already adding a new "Performer" takes very long. I attached both files: isa.assay.xlsx, isa.assay.xlsx

[Freymaurer]

Hey! With the recent changes to our websites, i sadly had very little time to look into this issue. I am now working on Swate again, and investigating the issue.

At the moment i think, that the mechanism through which Swate handles its undo/redo function is the culprit.

We parse the full file into json format for every change and store this "state" in localStorage. This parsing might be the issue for the performance dips.