Temporary template created erroneously

[James-Crean]

I have encountered an issue while adding support for editing templates. If a user edits a template everything works as intended including being able to refresh the page. However, if a user plots using the edited template, an identical temporary template gets created. This is not immediately apparent since templates are only populated on load. Once the user refreshes the page, the temporary templates are shown.

I have looked through my code but I only see a single call to create a temporary template, and my testing did not show that line being ran.

Is there something else happening behind the scenes that I am missing, or did I make a mistake in my code?
@doutriaux1 @scottwittenburg

Instructions below for setting up the dev branches for both vCDAT and vcs-js.

• Make sure you have cloned the vcs and vcdat repos.
• If you have not already set up a conda environment for vCDAT run ./scripts/setup.sh
• Source your vCDAT environment. E.g. source activate nightly or conda activate nightly
• cd into the vcs-js project directory and checkout the add_template_functions branch
• Run python setup.py install
• Next, cd into the vcdat project directory and checkout the fix_template_editor branch
• Run ./scripts/autorun.sh

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• Open your browser and navigate to localhost:5000
• To recreate the issue, edit the 'default' template, change something such as mean's X value and save
• Then load a variable of your choice, and drag it into the plotting area.
• Once the plot loads, refresh the page.
• You should see a template named something like __template_861925014236853

[James-Crean]

Looks like this is not related to the template code, but is instead related to plotting.

See CDAT/vcs-js#53