Clear plugin

[lukeyt]

There does not seem to be any way to clear a previously loaded plugin. For instance if I use the example:

`let plugin = {
words: {
'trex': 'Dinosaur'
},
tags: {
Dinosaur: {
isA: 'Animal'
}
}
};
nlp.plugin(plugin);
let doc = nlp('i saw a HUUUUGE trex');

doc.match('#Dinosaur').out('normal')// 'trex'`

There doesn't seem to be any way to unload 'plugin', so that

doc.match('#Dinosaur').out('normal')

Will always return 'trex'. Am I missing something? I want to be able to switch out a plugin and load another one without reloading the browser window.

[spencermountain]

hey @lukeyt yeah, you can do this with .clone(), but it's a little awkward.

let nlp2 = nlp.clone();
nlp.plugin({
  words: {
    trex: 'plugin'
  }
});
nlp('trex').debug();
nlp2('trex').debug();

cheers

[lukeyt]

Great - thank you @spencermountain - I will give it a go!

[lukeyt]

I have tried this - however its not quite working as I expected after all -

var nlp2 = nlp.clone();

nlp2.plugin({
words: {
trex: 'plugin'
}
});

will error with nlp2.plugin is not a function. What I had hoped was that I could use the approach above to clone nlp each time I wanted to load a different plugin, discarding the clone each time. But it seems clone does not clone the methods (or at least the plugin method)?

[spencermountain]

yeah, rats. i was afraid of that.

check out this issue, where someone reloads the library using require-reload.

i can look at cleaning up the library clone stuff, but it's behind a backlog right now.

[playground]

Is there a solution to clear nlp plugin?

[spencermountain]

hey @playground yes, .clone() should work as expected now:
https://observablehq.com/@spencermountain/compromise-constructor-methods
cheers

[playground]

so how would you do this?
nlp.plugin(plugin1) has the origin content, would like to clear it and reload it with new content such as nlp.plugin(plugin2)

Ah, I was still on version 11, just upgraded to the latest 13.1.1 but getting nlp.plugin is not a function.

[spencermountain]

yes, please read the v12 release notes and the documentation for .clone()