v4.4.0 does not work with latest react-native

[leoschweizer]

• Node Version: v.7.8.0
• Npm Version: 4.2.0
• Platform: react-native 0.44.3 on iOS 10.3
• Package Version: [email protected]

I'm using the contentful JS-SDK in a react-native project. After upgrading from 4.3.0 to 4.4.0, the app no longer works due to contentful throwing an error on import:

Cannot read property '0' of null

in contentful.js:11297 which is the last line of this block:

        else if (
          typeof context.process == 'object' && !context.process.browser &&
          (data = context.process)
        ) {
          name = 'Node.js';
          arch = data.arch;
          os = data.platform;
          version = /[\d.]+/.exec(data.version)[0];
        }

I've downgraded to 4.3.0 and everything works as expected again.

[Khaledgarbaya]

hi @leoschweizer,
Thanks for reporting I will check this asap.
Best,
Khaled

[leoschweizer]

@Khaledgarbaya btw, the data object looks like this:

{
    "env": {
        "NODE_ENV": "development"
    }
}

so arch, platform and version are all missing.

[Khaledgarbaya]

Hey @leoschweizer looks like it's a problem with platform.js, will see what I can do

[Khaledgarbaya]

let's hope this PR gets fixed bestiejs/platform.js#130
if not in the next 2 days I will maybe fork the repo and apply the patch

[Khaledgarbaya]

Hi @leoschweizer can you get this branch of SDK-core and npm link it and test if it solves the issue for you?

[leoschweizer]

@Khaledgarbaya I can't get this to work but I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly.

Here's what I did:

• In my app project, put contentful 4.4.0 as dependency
• Cloned the sdk-core repository in a separate directory and checked out the fix/platform branch
• Ran sudo npm link in the sdk-core directory
• Ran npm link contentful-sdk-core in the app directory

But the error remains the same. Since I'm not seeing the code changes either I guess I'm missing something?

[Khaledgarbaya]

hi @leoschweizer hmm can you clone contentful.js also and run npm build after step 4 and link contentful.js to your project ?

[leoschweizer]

@Khaledgarbaya I did, but now I ran into this: facebook/react-native#637 - so npm link is not going to work with React Native for the time being.

[Khaledgarbaya]

@leoschweizer 😭 ok I will try to do some tests on other platforms and release a patch version by tomorrow. Sorry about the ping pong

[axe312ger]

Looks like we are still blocked here since bestiejs/platform.js#130 is merged but not released yet :(

[axe312ger]

@leoschweizer I released https://github.com/contentful/contentful-sdk-core/releases/tag/v3.14.2 which should now work in react-native. Can you upgrade all your contentful.js (plus check that you got the latest contentful-sdk-core) and confirm if this is now working for you in react native? A small test on my local machine was promising :)

[leoschweizer]

@axe312ger I can confirm that it is working for me now 👍

[axe312ger]

Awesome! :)