Updateing FixedColumns from 3.3.3 to 4.0.1 gives FixedColumns().update(): update is not a function

Marcel Hoog Antink

When I update FixedColumns form 3.3.3 to 4.0.1 or to 4.0.0 the function FixedColumns().update() does not exist anymore.
Going back to 3.3.3 and all works fine again.

codeline: table.fixedColumns().update();
Errormessage: Uncaught TypeError: table.fixedColumns(...).update is not a function

Is something changed in using update() in 4.0.1?

colin

That's right. With 4.0.0 the interface was greatly simplified, so many of the methods have been removed as no longer needed. This github commit lists the obsoleted methods.

If you just remove that call from your code, it should behave as you'd expect.

Colin

Marcel Hoog Antink

OK, great, it works now.
Maybe it is an idea to make these calls dummy with a console.log('text') in it.
And put in the 'text that the method is removed in this version.
So when an update is done, the code does not break.

colin

I must say, when you reported the issue, I did think dummy functions doing something like what you suggested would have been worthwhile. I'll see if we can be more resilient in the future,

Colin

allan

With a major release (x.0.0) we might change API methods inline with semantic versioning. As the update() method was no longer needed with the changed code, keeping it around seemed redundant, and as a major release I felt it appropriate to remove it.

We could have waited until v5, but then we'd have just hit the same issue, even with a console message.

I do take the point that breaking API changes are a massive massive pain. Which is why we try to avoid them as much as possible!

Allan