I was expecting /retro/tree/path/foo.ipynb to open the notebook directly

[parmentelat]

Problem

I'm considering to use retrolab as a replacement to classic/ in an education-oriented tool, where the capability to open one specific notebook from the outside is paramount

pointing my browser at a URL starting with retro/ I was expecting to be able to open a specific notebook directly

• like e.g. lab/tree/path/foo.ipynb does

what I observe is the part after tree/ being ignored, i.e. retro/tree/path/foo.ipyn behaves exactly like retro/

is this a bug or by design ?

Proposed Solution

provide the same direct-access capability as vanilla jlab

Additional context

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[jtpio]

Thanks @parmentelat.

This should now have been fixed by #159.

It hasn't been released yet, but you could use this Binder link to try the latest main branch on Binder: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyterlab/retrolab/main?urlpath=retro/tree

[parmentelat]

thank you @jtpio this is great ! :)
when do you expect this to make it to pypi ?

may I push one step further and ask you about the ability to apply the same trick on jupytext notebooks ?

this is an issue that I also experience with plain jupyterlab, as I just described in here
https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/opening-a-jupytext-powered-notebook-under-jlab/9545

I expect this to be less straightforward of an answer, let me know if you'd rather I open a new issue about that

[jtpio]

when do you expect this to make it to pypi ?

Soon for the 0.3.0 alpha series, waiting for other fixes for 0.2.x.

may I push one step further and ask you about the ability to apply the same trick on jupytext notebooks ?

I think jupytext is out of scope for the retrolab project. It would be better to open a new issue on the jupytext repo directly: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext

Probably this could be implemented as a server extension.

[jtpio]

Closing as answered and fixed, thanks!

[parmentelat]

thanks!
for the record I'm trying to follow up on this in mwouts/jupytext#803