Myujth

I would like to display the error to my user. An error is thrown and the error and message are updated in the reducer by the action. But for some reason I can't get the error or message to display for the user. Is there something wrong with the reducer or mapStateToProps? How does the component know the state has been updated? I'm not sure how to update that.....

What am I missing?

reducer:

import CREATE_VEHICLE,VEHICLE_ERROR, 
VEHICLE_FORM_PAGE_SUBMIT,FETCH_VEHICLES_SUCCESS from '../actions/vehicles';

const initialState=message: null, error: null, vehicle:;

 export default function vehicleReducer(state=initialState, action) 
console.log("in reducer");
switch(action.type)
case CREATE_VEHICLE:
 return [...state, Object.assign(, action.vehicle, action.message)];
case VEHICLE_ERROR:
 return
 ...state,
 error: action.error,
 message: action.message
 ;
 default:
 return state;

actions:

export const vehicleError = (error, msg) => 
return
type: VEHICLE_ERROR,
error:error,
message: msg


;

export const createVehicle=(vehicle) =>
console.log("vehicle: ", vehicle);

return (dispatch) => 
 return axios.post(`http://localhost:9081/api/bmwvehicle/create`, 
vehicle)

 .then((response) =>
 if (response.ok)
 console.log("success");
 dispatch(createVehicleSuccess(response.data))

 , (error) => 
 if (error.response.status == 500)
 dispatch(vehicleError(error.message, "Could not add vehicle, 
please try again."));

 

 
 );
;;

component:

class Vehicle extends React.Component
 constructor(props)
 super(props);
 


 submitVehicle(input)
 this.props.createVehicle(input);
 

 render()
 console.log("the error is: ",this.props.error);
 return(
 <div>
 <AddVehicle submitVehicle= 
this.submitVehicle.bind(this) /> 
 </div>

 )
 


 const mapStateToProps=(state, ownProps) => 
 return
 vehicle: state.vehicle,
 message: state.message,
 items: state.items,
 vehicles: state.vehicles,
 error: state.error
 
 ;

 const mapDispatchToProps=(dispatch)=>
 return 
 createVehicle: vehicle => 
dispatch(vehicleActions.createVehicle(vehicle))
 
 ;


export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Vehicle);

In your CREATE_VEHICLE action, i think you meant to return the state with curly braces instead? ...state, Object.assign(, action.vehicle, action.message)

In your mapStateToProps, you attempt to access state.vehicles and state.items, but it does not exist in your default initial state const initialState=message: null, error: null, vehicle:.

To answer your question about how does the component know the (redux) state has been updated, the component knows because you wrapped it in the Redux HoC called connect() which will notify your component via an update anytime the mapped redux state changes. In your case, the component will be updated on changes to the redux store's state.vehicle, state.message, state.items, state.vehicles and state.error.