Mapview's when() event on view giving error?

NisarAhmed

I have a view which uses a webmap instance. According to the documentation, MapView can leverage the when() function to indicate that the view is ready to be manipulated. But I'm getting  a "view.when is not a function" error in browser console.

The code I'm using is:

<SPAN class="keyword token">var</SPAN> webmap <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">new</SPAN> <SPAN class="token class-name">WebMap</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; portalItem<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; id<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"<some long id>"</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN>
 <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>

<SPAN class="keyword token">var</SPAN> view <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">new</SPAN> <SPAN class="token class-name">MapView</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp; map<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> webmap<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp; container<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"esriMap"</SPAN>
 <SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>

view<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">when</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="keyword token">function</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN> <SPAN class="comment token">// this line is throwing the error</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
<SPAN class="punctuation token">}</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">function</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>error<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">{</SPAN>
&nbsp; <SPAN class="token function"> alert</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>error<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>message<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>
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I'm using ESRI Javascript v4.5 API. What am I missing here?

rscheitlin

Nisar,

  The when was introduced in 4.6 not 4.5.

At 4.6, then() is deprecated in favor of when(). The then() method will still be honored at 4.6, but will throw warning messages in the browser developer console, to ease the process of updating apps to using when(). We made this change to allow the use of native ES6 promises within the context of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.