Feature separatethousands

src/components/colorbar/attributes.js

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ module.exports = {
     showtickprefix: axesAttrs.showtickprefix,
     ticksuffix: axesAttrs.ticksuffix,
     showticksuffix: axesAttrs.showticksuffix,
+    separatethousands: axesAttrs.separatethousands,
     exponentformat: axesAttrs.exponentformat,
     showexponent: axesAttrs.showexponent,
     title: {

src/components/colorbar/draw.js

@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ module.exports = function draw(gd, id) {
                 tickangle: opts.tickangle,
                 tickformat: opts.tickformat,
                 exponentformat: opts.exponentformat,
+                separatethousands: opts.separatethousands,
                 showexponent: opts.showexponent,
                 showtickprefix: opts.showtickprefix,
                 tickprefix: opts.tickprefix,

src/lib/index.js

@@ -581,15 +581,21 @@ lib.objectFromPath = function(path, value) {
  * // returns '2016'
  *
  * @example
+ * lib.numSeparate(3000, '.,', true);
+ * // returns '3,000'
+ *
+ * @example
  * lib.numSeparate(1234.56, '|,')
  * // returns '1,234|56'
  *
  * @param   {string|number} value       the value to be converted
  * @param   {string}    separators  string of decimal, then thousands separators
+ * @param   {boolean}    separatethousands  boolean, 4-digit integers are separated if true
  *
  * @return  {string}    the value that has been separated
  */
-lib.numSeparate = function(value, separators) {
+lib.numSeparate = function(value, separators, separatethousands) {
+    if(!separatethousands) separatethousands = false;
 
     if(typeof separators !== 'string' || separators.length === 0) {
         throw new Error('Separator string required for formatting!');
@@ -608,7 +614,7 @@ lib.numSeparate = function(value, separators) {
         x2 = x.length > 1 ? decimalSep + x[1] : '';
 
     // Years are ignored for thousands separators
-    if(thouSep && (x.length > 1 || x1.length > 4)) {
+    if(thouSep && (x.length > 1 || x1.length > 4 || separatethousands)) {
         while(thousandsRe.test(x1)) {
             x1 = x1.replace(thousandsRe, '$1' + thouSep + '$2');
         }

src/plots/cartesian/axes.js

@@ -1092,7 +1092,8 @@ function numFormat(v, ax, fmtoverride, hover) {
         tickRound = ax._tickround,
         exponentFormat = fmtoverride || ax.exponentformat || 'B',
         exponent = ax._tickexponent,
-        tickformat = ax.tickformat;
+        tickformat = ax.tickformat,
+        separatethousands = ax.separatethousands;
 
     // special case for hover: set exponent just for this value, and
     // add a couple more digits of precision over tick labels
@@ -1156,7 +1157,7 @@ function numFormat(v, ax, fmtoverride, hover) {
             if(dp) v = v.substr(0, dp + tickRound).replace(/\.?0+$/, '');
         }
         // insert appropriate decimal point and thousands separator
-        v = Lib.numSeparate(v, ax._gd._fullLayout.separators);
+        v = Lib.numSeparate(v, ax._gd._fullLayout.separators, separatethousands);
     }
 
     // add exponent

src/plots/cartesian/layout_attributes.js

@@ -310,6 +310,14 @@ module.exports = {
             'If *B*, 1B.'
         ].join(' ')
     },
+    separatethousands: {
+        valType: 'boolean',
+        dflt: false,
+        role: 'style',
+        description: [
+            'If "true", even 4-digit integers are separated'
+        ].join(' ')
+    },
     tickformat: {
         valType: 'string',
         dflt: '',

src/plots/cartesian/tick_label_defaults.js

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ module.exports = function handleTickLabelDefaults(containerIn, containerOut, coe
             if(!tickFormat && axType !== 'date') {
                 coerce('showexponent', showAttrDflt);
                 coerce('exponentformat');
+                coerce('separatethousands');
             }
         }
     }

src/plots/gl3d/layout/axis_attributes.js

@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ module.exports = {
     showticksuffix: axesAttrs.showticksuffix,
     showexponent: axesAttrs.showexponent,
     exponentformat: axesAttrs.exponentformat,
+    separatethousands: axesAttrs.separatethousands,
     tickformat: axesAttrs.tickformat,
     hoverformat: axesAttrs.hoverformat,
     // lines and grids

src/plots/ternary/layout/axis_attributes.js

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ module.exports = {
     ticksuffix: axesAttrs.ticksuffix,
     showexponent: axesAttrs.showexponent,
     exponentformat: axesAttrs.exponentformat,
+    separatethousands: axesAttrs.separatethousands,
     tickfont: axesAttrs.tickfont,
     tickangle: axesAttrs.tickangle,
     tickformat: axesAttrs.tickformat,

test/image/mocks/axislabel_separatethousands.json

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+    "data": [
+        {
+            "x": [1000, 2000, 3000, 4000],
+            "y": [1000, 1500, 2000, 10000],
+            "type": "scatter"
+        }
+    ],
+    "layout": {
+        "yaxis": {
+            "exponentformat": "none", 
+            "separatethousands": true 
+        }
+    }
+}

test/jasmine/tests/lib_test.js

@@ -1315,6 +1315,10 @@ describe('Test lib.js:', function() {
             expect(Lib.numSeparate(2016, '.,')).toBe('2016');
         });
 
+        it('should work even for 4-digit integer if third argument is true', function() {
+            expect(Lib.numSeparate(3000, '.,', true)).toBe('3,000');
+        });
+
         it('should work for multiple thousands', function() {
             expect(Lib.numSeparate(1000000000, '.,')).toBe('1,000,000,000');
         });