Chart.js v2: How to make tooltips always appear on pie chart?

Question

I have found similar questions in Stack Overflow, but all of them were addressed one and two years ago. Now Chart.js has come up in version 2, and lots of the documentation changes. Can someone please help me showing an example of pie chart with labels - or pie chart with all of its segment's tooltips are visible?

UPDATE

Thanks to @potatopeelings, his answer works perfectly for Chart.js v2.1.

Although I initially asked how to permanently show tooltips on pie chart here, I found a better solution: showing values as labels in percentages! It is now enabled for pie chart in Chart.js v2.1. In the chart options:

animation: {
  duration: 0,
  onComplete: function () {
    var self = this,
        chartInstance = this.chart,
        ctx = chartInstance.ctx;

    ctx.font = '18px Arial';
    ctx.textAlign = "center";
    ctx.fillStyle = "#ffffff";

    Chart.helpers.each(self.data.datasets.forEach(function (dataset, datasetIndex) {
        var meta = self.getDatasetMeta(datasetIndex),
            total = 0, //total values to compute fraction
            labelxy = [],
            offset = Math.PI / 2, //start sector from top
            radius,
            centerx,
            centery, 
            lastend = 0; //prev arc's end line: starting with 0

        for (var val of dataset.data) { total += val; } 

        Chart.helpers.each(meta.data.forEach( function (element, index) {
            radius = 0.9 * element._model.outerRadius - element._model.innerRadius;
            centerx = element._model.x;
            centery = element._model.y;
            var thispart = dataset.data[index],
                arcsector = Math.PI * (2 * thispart / total);
            if (element.hasValue() && dataset.data[index] > 0) {
              labelxy.push(lastend + arcsector / 2 + Math.PI + offset);
            }
            else {
              labelxy.push(-1);
            }
            lastend += arcsector;
        }), self)

        var lradius = radius * 3 / 4;
        for (var idx in labelxy) {
          if (labelxy[idx] === -1) continue;
          var langle = labelxy[idx],
              dx = centerx + lradius * Math.cos(langle),
              dy = centery + lradius * Math.sin(langle),
              val = Math.round(dataset.data[idx] / total * 100);
          ctx.fillText(val + '%', dx, dy);
        }

    }), self);
  }
},

I thinks this is what you looking for. stackoverflow.com/questions/25661197/… — Luke
@Luke Hi, thanks for taking your time. Unfortunately that example was using chart.js v1.0.2. The data structures and configurations on v2 are different from v1 — Danny
I would use this one: github.com/chartjs/chartjs-plugin-datalabels. This plugin should do what you want. — FranzHuber23

Fl0R1D3R Fl0R1D3R · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-23T11:06:04

Solution for ChartJs Version > 2.1.5:

Chart.pluginService.register({
  beforeRender: function (chart) {
    if (chart.config.options.showAllTooltips) {
        // create an array of tooltips
        // we can't use the chart tooltip because there is only one tooltip per chart
        chart.pluginTooltips = [];
        chart.config.data.datasets.forEach(function (dataset, i) {
            chart.getDatasetMeta(i).data.forEach(function (sector, j) {
                chart.pluginTooltips.push(new Chart.Tooltip({
                    _chart: chart.chart,
                    _chartInstance: chart,
                    _data: chart.data,
                    _options: chart.options.tooltips,
                    _active: [sector]
                }, chart));
            });
        });

        // turn off normal tooltips
        chart.options.tooltips.enabled = false;
    }
},
  afterDraw: function (chart, easing) {
    if (chart.config.options.showAllTooltips) {
        // we don't want the permanent tooltips to animate, so don't do anything till the animation runs atleast once
        if (!chart.allTooltipsOnce) {
            if (easing !== 1)
                return;
            chart.allTooltipsOnce = true;
        }

        // turn on tooltips
        chart.options.tooltips.enabled = true;
        Chart.helpers.each(chart.pluginTooltips, function (tooltip) {
            tooltip.initialize();
            tooltip.update();
            // we don't actually need this since we are not animating tooltips
            tooltip.pivot();
            tooltip.transition(easing).draw();
        });
        chart.options.tooltips.enabled = false;
    }
  }
});

Chart.js v2: How to make tooltips always appear on pie chart?

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