Sankey chart - Not able to control display order of nodes

[spime-web]

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Issue Details

As per the #4986, order of the nodes displayed in the Sankey chart will be based on the series.data. But the latest version (4.2.0) doesn't work as expected.

Expected Behavior

When below option is specified for Sankey charts, the order of nodes should be AAAAAAA, CCCCCCC and DDDDDD.

var data = [{"name":"AAAAAAA","value":7},
              {"name":"CCCCCCC","value":6},
              {"name":"DDDDDD","value":5},
              {"name":"EEEEEE","value":4},
              {"name":"FFFFFF","value":3},
              {"name":"BBBBBB","value":2}];
var links = [
			{"source":"DDDDDD","target":"EEEEEE","value":1},
			{"source":"CCCCCCC","target":"FFFFFF","value":1},
			{"source":"AAAAAAA","target":"BBBBBB","value":1},
            {"source":"AAAAAAA","target":"EEEEEE","value":1}]
  
myChart.setOption(option = {
    title: {
        text: 'Sankey Diagram'
    },
    tooltip: {
        trigger: 'item',
        triggerOn: 'mousemove'
    },
    series: [
        {
            type: 'sankey',
            data: data,
            links: links,
            focusNodeAdjacency: 'allEdges',
            itemStyle: {
                normal: {
                    borderWidth: 1,
                    borderColor: '#aaa'
                }
            },
            lineStyle: {
                normal: {
                    color: 'source',
                    curveness: 0.5
                }
            }
        }
    ]
});

Current Behavior

But the nodes are in different order as shown in the below image:

Online Example

Go to https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts-examples/public/editor.html?c=sankey-energy and replace the left panel code with the code snippet provided in the "Expected behavior" section and click Run.

Topics

Anything Else We Need to Know

A similar issue has been reported earlier (#4986) but as that issue has been closed, I am creating a this issue.

Environment

• ECharts version；ECharts 版本: {DESCRIBE_HERE}

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[spime-web]

Hi,

It would be great if you could provide some rough idea on when the fix would be available.

Thanks & Regards,
Bala

[deqingli]

Hi,

It would be great if you could provide some rough idea on when the fix would be available.

Thanks & Regards,
Bala

Hi @spime-web, you can set layoutIterations = 0.