I have a Gutenberg block I'm using to select posts via the edit screen the render on the frontend.
My class is:
class MySelectPosts extends Component {
//Method for setting the initial state
static getInitialState(selectedPost) {
return {
posts: [],
selectedPost: selectedPost,
post: {}
};
}
constructor() {
super(...arguments);
this.state = this.constructor.getInitialState(
this.props.attributes.selectedPost
);
//Binding
this.getOptions = this.getOptions.bind(this);
//Load the posts
this.getOptions();
}
getOptions() {
return new wp.api.collections.Posts().fetch().then(posts => {
if (posts && 0 !== this.state.selectedPost) {
//If we have a selected post, find that post and return it
const post = posts.find(item => {
return item.id == this.state.selectedPost;
});
this.setState({ post, posts });
} else {
this.setState({ posts });
}
});
}
render() {
//Options to hold all the loaded posts
let options = [{ value: 0, label: __("Select a post") }];
let output = __("Loading Posts");
if (this.state.posts.length > 0) {
const loading = __("We have %d posts. Choose one.");
output = loading.replace("%d", this.state.posts.length);
this.state.posts.forEach(post => {
options.push({ value: post.id, label: post.title.rendered });
});
} else {
output = __("No posts found. Please create some first");
}
return [
//If we are focused on this block, create the inspector controls
!!this.props.isSelected && (
<InspectorControls>
<SelectControl
multiple
value={this.props.attributes.selectedPost}
label={__("Select a post")}
options={options}
/>
</InspectorControls>
),
"Load post placeholder"
];
}
}
export default MySelectPosts;
The block itself is able to be rendered to the screen, and when it is not selected, it returns "Load post placeholder".
However when i select the block it returns that the block cannot be rendered and in the console I get:
Invariant Violation: Minified React error #130; visit https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=130&args[]=undefined&args[]= for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings.
Which says the error is:
Element type is invalid: expected a string (for built-in components) or a class/function (for composite components) but got: undefined.
It doesn't specifically say where the error is, but I've narrowed it down to the <InspectorControls>
block because if I replace that block with a string it will render the string (it also renders the 'Load post placeholder' right after the string.
I am importing the controls at the beginning of the file like so:
const { __ } = wp.i18n;
const { registerBlockType, InspectorControls } = wp.blocks;
const { SelectControl, PanelBody } = wp.components;
const { Component } = wp.element;
Can someone shed some light on this? Most answers (from what I can see) are suggesting an incorrect import
of the class, however I have used import {InspectorControls} = wp.blocks
on other Gutenberg blocks and they have worked perfectly fine.
The solution of this was very simple actually and I found it via This Stack Exchange Post
The { InspectorControls }
was moved to a new namespace, wp.editor
. So when I called it in the class
above, it obviously returned an error because React could not read the Component, since it did not exist.