Output not shown correctly with pattern-matching callbacks

Hi all,

I’m new to Plotly Dash so I wanted to run the examples on the documentation. I have some problems when runnning pattern-matching callbacks examples. This one is from “Simple example with ALL”:

import dash
import dash_core_components as dcc
import dash_html_components as html
from dash.dependencies import Input, Output, State, MATCH, ALL

app = dash.Dash(__name__, suppress_callback_exceptions=True)

app.layout = html.Div([
    html.Button("Add Filter", id="add-filter", n_clicks=0),
    html.Div(id='dropdown-container', children=[]),
    html.Div(id='dropdown-container-output')
])

@app.callback(
    Output('dropdown-container', 'children'),
    Input('add-filter', 'n_clicks'),
    State('dropdown-container', 'children'))
def display_dropdowns(n_clicks, children):
    new_dropdown = dcc.Dropdown(
        id={
            'type': 'filter-dropdown',
            'index': n_clicks
        },
        options=[{'label': i, 'value': i} for i in ['NYC', 'MTL', 'LA', 'TOKYO']]
    )
    children.append(new_dropdown)
    return children

@app.callback(
    Output('dropdown-container-output', 'children'),
    Input({'type': 'filter-dropdown', 'index': ALL}, 'value')
)
def display_output(values):
    return html.Div([
        html.Div('Dropdown {} = {}'.format(i + 1, value))
        for (i, value) in enumerate(values)
    ])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run_server(debug=True)

Error output reads:

app.run_server(debug = True)
Dash is running on http://127.0.0.1:8050/

 * Serving Flask app "__main__" (lazy loading)
 * Environment: production
   WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
   Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Debug mode: on
An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

SystemExit: 1

C:\Users\93cha\anaconda3\envs\srt\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py:3445: UserWarning: To exit: use 'exit', 'quit', or Ctrl-D.
  warn("To exit: use 'exit', 'quit', or Ctrl-D.", stacklevel=1)

And when I call traceback:

%tb
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-2-6f6fa5ce54d8>", line 1, in <module>
    app.run_server(debug = True)

  File "C:\Users\93cha\anaconda3\envs\srt\lib\site-packages\dash\dash.py", line 1717, in run_server
    self.server.run(host=host, port=port, debug=debug, **flask_run_options)

  File "C:\Users\93cha\anaconda3\envs\srt\lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 990, in run
    run_simple(host, port, self, **options)

  File "C:\Users\93cha\anaconda3\envs\srt\lib\site-packages\werkzeug\serving.py", line 1050, in run_simple
    run_with_reloader(inner, extra_files, reloader_interval, reloader_type)

  File "C:\Users\93cha\anaconda3\envs\srt\lib\site-packages\werkzeug\_reloader.py", line 339, in run_with_reloader
    sys.exit(reloader.restart_with_reloader())

SystemExit: 1

I googled around and some people suggested deleting debug = True in app.run_server. I tried that and it ran, but I could then see only dropdowns and no outputs.

Layout I should see:

Layout that I see (no ouput text):

I tried googling some more, and other suggested there is a problem with the Reloader (I also don’t understand what reloader does) and instead I should run app.run_server(debug = Ture, use_reloader = False)

So I tried it out. The code ran, but when I went to the web browser there was error message:

So in short, I just copied the whole official example from the doc and did no adjustments, and still it couldn’t run. I only had problems with pattern-matching callbacks, all the other callbacks ran as expected.

I’m really grateful for any support! Thank you all!

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It seems that the Input for your second callback is not being recognized. You need to place the id of the Input and not at dict.

Try using the id as a string in the first output just as ‘filter-dropdown’ and then use that as the input for the second callback.

Hi, thanks for the reply! Through pattern-matching callbacks the id can receive a dictionary as input as well. And this was the exact example on the official doc so it should have worked.

I actually found out where it went wrong. As stated at the beginning of the documentation page, it only works in Dash 1.11.0 and requires dash-renderer 1.4.0 or greater. So I called conda list to check and surely enough my dash-renderer is not updated.

And now it works :smiley: !

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I had the same problem of dash-renderer not being installed. What a frustrating experience until I found your answer :joy: