Uncaught type error: cannot read property persist of undefined with react-bootstrap carousel

Question

I'm implementing a react-bootsrap carousel with react-redux and I'm getting the error in the title.

I'm using a controlled carousel and the error message appears when the carousel changes a slide automatically.

When the user clicks prev. next buttons and changes it manually all seems to be ok.

I don't get it should I add persist as props or options to props or similar?

Here's my code:

container:

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { Link } from 'react-router'
import store from 'store/configureStore'
import Slides from 'components/SlideShow'
import { getInitalSlides, handleSelect } from 'actions/SlidesActions'

class Home extends Component {

constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {
        index: null,
        direction: null
    }
    this.handleSelect = this.handleSelect.bind(this)    

static fetchData({ store }) {
        return store.dispatch(getInitalSlides())
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        this.props.getInitalSlides()
    }

handleSelect(selectedIndex, e) {
        //alert(e)
        this.props.handleSelect(selectedIndex, e)
    }

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="Home">
        <h1>Home Page</h1>
        <Slides 
        slides={this.props.slides}   
        getInitialState={this.state.index} 
        getInitialStateD={this.state.direction}
        slidesControl={this.handleSelect}
        />
        <div><Link to="/question">to question</Link></div>
        <div><Link to="/posts">to posts</Link></div>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

function mapStateToProps (state) {
  const { slides, handleSelect } = state

  return { slides: state.slides, onSelect: state.handleSelect } 
}

export { Home }
export default connect(mapStateToProps { getInitalSlides, handleSelect})(Home)

and here is the relevant bit in the component:

    render() {

    return (
      <Carousel 
      activeIndex={this.props.getInitialState} 
      direction={this.props.getInitialStateD} 
      onSelect={(selectedIndex,e)=>this.props.slidesControl(selectedIndex,e)}
      >
      {

      this.props.slides.map((s)=>{
              let id = s.get('id')
              let title = s.get('title')
              let image = s.get('image')
              let alt = s.get('alt')
              let caption = s.get('caption')
              return(

                    <Carousel.Item key={id} >
                    <img width={900} height={500} alt={s.get('alt')} src={image} alt={alt}/>
                    <Carousel.Caption>
                      <h3>{title}</h3>
                      <p>{caption}</p>
                    </Carousel.Caption>
                  </Carousel.Item>

              )
      }) 



    }
    </Carousel>)
  }
}

Edit: Here is the relevant react-bootstrap carousel code (where the error is thrown)

  var onSelect = this.props.onSelect;

  if (onSelect) {
    if (onSelect.length > 1) {
      // React SyntheticEvents are pooled, so we need to remove this event
      // from the pool to add a custom property. To avoid unnecessarily
      // removing objects from the pool, only do this when the listener
      // actually wants the event.
      e.persist();
      e.direction = direction;

      onSelect(index, e);
    } else {
      onSelect(index);
    }
  }

Answer 1

I analyzed Carousel.js code of react-bootstrap and I suspect it is issue in react-bootstrap library itself.

There is this line triggering change in Carousel.js code:

this.timeout = setTimeout(this.next, this.props.interval);

this.next method expects parameter of type SynteticEvent, but none is passed from setTimeout call. That exlpains your error message: ...persist of undefined....

The issue was probably hidden for a long time, but was exposed with this commit, where event parameter is actually used by Carousel.ja code itself.

So I recommend to create react-bootstrap Github issue and in the meantime downgrade to version that doesn't contain mentioned commit.