Directions Breaking Changes

[Noah-Sager]

At version 4.24, the old workflow of creating a Directions widget without a RouteLayer was deprecated, and will be a breaking change at version 4.27, due to arrive in June 2023.

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/4.24/#routing

See the Directions widget sample for how it looks to create a Directions widget with a RouteLayer.

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/sandbox/?sample=widgets-directions

Directions widget code snippet with RouteLayer:

Also at version 4.24, we deprecated several properties on the Directions widget and DirectionsViewModel. We typically remove deprecated things after 3 or more releases. At version 4.27, we are removing the following deprecated properties.

This is a breaking change. The replacement to use is listed alongside the deprecated property.

Version Deprecated	Property	Replacement	Version Removed
4.24	Directions.routeServiceUrl	RouteLayer.url via Directions.layer	4.27
4.24	Directions.routeSymbol	RouteSymbols.directionLines via Directions.layer	4.27
4.24	Directions.stopSymbols	RouteStopSymbols via Directions.layer	4.27
4.24	DirectionsViewModel.highlightSegment	DirectionsViewModel.highlight	4.27
4.24	DirectionsViewModel.routeServiceUrl	RouteLayer.url via DirectionsViewModel.layer	4.27
4.24	DirectionsViewModel.routeSymbol	RouteSymbols.directionLines via DirectionsViewModel.layer	4.27
4.24	DirectionsViewModel.stops	RouteLayer.stops via DirectionsViewModel.layer	4.27
4.24	DirectionsViewModel.stopSymbols	RouteStopSymbols via DirectionsViewModel.layer	4.27