What happened with getDeviceById method?

Hi there,

I was using the 1.3.0 version and today I have updated it to 1.5.0. After that, I have found that the getDeviceById method from the ZXingScannerComponent class does not exists anymore. So my question is what happened with this method? Have you changed the name or removed it? If it has been removed, is there any other method to get the device ID?

I did my code following your plunker demo (https://embed.plnkr.co/MN4riU/) and it is something like this:

  <zxing-scanner #scanner start="true" [device]="selectedDevice"
                 (scanSuccess)="handleQrCodeResult($event)"
                 (scanError)="handleQrCodeResult($event, true)"
                 (camerasNotFound)="camerasNotFound($event)"
                 (camerasFound)="camerasFound($event)"
                 (permissionResponse)="permissionResponse($event)"></zxing-scanner>

@Component({
  selector: 'app-qr-reader',
  templateUrl: './qr-reader.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./qr-reader.component.scss']
})
export class QrReaderComponent implements OnInit {
  @ViewChild('scanner') scanner: ZXingScannerComponent;

  onDeviceSelectChange(selectedValue: string) {
      this.selectedDevice = this.scanner.getDeviceById(selectedValue);
  }

  [..]

Thanks for your help!

[odahcam]

Yes, my fault. It happens that I didn’t remember that there was such changes, it was a long time since I coded this release. Looks like a lot more people is using this lib now so I gotta be careful.

[odahcam]

team: me (hey!) 😆

Get device by ID is out, it was removed from 1.3 to 1.5. You can still filter devices by ID like this:

    this.scanner.camerasFound.subscribe((devices: MediaDeviceInfo[]) => {
      // selects the devices's back camera by default
      for (const device of devices) {
          if (device.id === myDeviceId) {
            return device;
          }
      }
    });