Is there some way to namespace OJS cells.

[zachcp]

Description

Note: I am crossposting this issue from quarto-live - as I am not sure where it belongs. The issue is related to whether there is a way to designate an OJS cell as part of a namespace to avoid variable name collisions.

Background

I am working on an extension that I want to sit on top of quarto live that will let the Editor control a mol* instance embedded in the page. Great news - it works awesome!

Problem

If I have multiple versions of the quart-live<-->OJS pairs in the same page, then the OJS variable gets shadowed. Note in this image that I changed the top editor color to "red" where they used to both be "blue". I expect only the top one to turn red but the bot of the OJS-reactive canvases turned red because they are keyed to the mvsjData variable .

Question

Is there a way to specify an OJS envir variable so that I can always pair variable made in one pyodide env to an OJS cell even if they are the same name - e.g. mvsjData?

[cscheid]

Is there a way to specify an OJS envir variable so that I can always pair variable made in one pyodide env to an OJS cell even if they are the same name - e.g. mvsjData?

You'll need unique ids for each of the cells and then likely a mutable OJS cell with a mapping from ids to payloads, which you will have to maintain yourself. See https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/mutable

[zachcp]

@cscheid Thank you. For the moment I will have a limitaiton of one element per page. for maximum utility, it would be ideal to manipulate the variables upon creation on the quarto-live side.