From 741a97850ee743ec90811edb4d43a7ccfac805dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Piotr=20Ma=C5=9Blanka?= <piotr.maslanka@henrietta.com.pl>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:28:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] support for interruptable plots added

---
 docs/documentation/types/line.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 docs/documentation/types/xy.rst   |  3 +++
 pygal/graph/line.py               | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/documentation/types/line.rst b/docs/documentation/types/line.rst
index 6109c4d..287aec1 100644
--- a/docs/documentation/types/line.rst
+++ b/docs/documentation/types/line.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@ Basic simple line graph:
   line_chart.add('IE',      [85.8, 84.6, 84.7, 74.5,   66, 58.6, 54.7, 44.8, 36.2, 26.6, 20.1])
   line_chart.add('Others',  [14.2, 15.4, 15.3,  8.9,    9, 10.4,  8.9,  5.8,  6.7,  6.8,  7.5])
 
+
+ Interruptions
+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ If you happen to want a break in the middle of a plot, you can pass None values. Additionally,
+ you will need to specify allow_interruptions=True in the constructor, in order for the behaviour
+ to be supported correctly
+
+ .. pygal-code::
+
+   interrupted_chart = pygal.Line(allow_interruptions=True)
+   interrupted_chart.add('Temperature', [22, 34, 43, 12, None, 12, 55, None, 56])
+
+
 Stacked
 ~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/docs/documentation/types/xy.rst b/docs/documentation/types/xy.rst
index 9d03de6..b804688 100644
--- a/docs/documentation/types/xy.rst
+++ b/docs/documentation/types/xy.rst
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ DateTime
 Date
 ++++
 
+If you want to plot date/time-series with breaks inside the plot, pass allow_interruptions=True to
+the constructor. See Line on how to do it
+
 .. pygal-code::
 
   from datetime import date
diff --git a/pygal/graph/line.py b/pygal/graph/line.py
index baf17d8..6754b1f 100644
--- a/pygal/graph/line.py
+++ b/pygal/graph/line.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class Line(Graph):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """Set _self_close as False, it's True for Radar like Line"""
         self._self_close = False
+        self.allow_interruptions = kwargs.get('allow_interruptions', False)
         super(Line, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
     @cached_property
@@ -141,9 +142,32 @@ class Line(Graph):
                 view_values = list(map(self.view, points))
             if serie.fill:
                 view_values = self._fill(view_values)
-            self.svg.line(
-                serie_node['plot'], view_values, close=self._self_close,
-                class_='line reactive' + (' nofill' if not serie.fill else ''))
+
+            if self.allow_interruptions:
+                # view_values are in form [(x1, y1), (x2, y2)]. We need to split that
+                # into multiple sequences if a None is present here
+
+                sequences = []
+                cur_sequence = []
+                for x, y in view_values:
+                    if y is None and len(cur_sequence) > 0:     # emit current subsequence
+                        sequences.append(cur_sequence)
+                        cur_sequence = []
+                    elif y is None:                             # just discard
+                        continue
+                    else:
+                        cur_sequence.append((x,y))              # append the element
+
+                if len(cur_sequence) > 0:           # emit last possible sequence
+                    sequences.append(cur_sequence)
+            else:
+                # plain vanilla rendering
+                sequences = [view_values]
+
+            for seq in sequences:
+                self.svg.line(
+                    serie_node['plot'], seq, close=self._self_close,
+                    class_='line reactive' + (' nofill' if not serie.fill else ''))
 
     def _compute(self):
         """Compute y min and max and y scale and set labels"""