Sidenav causes an exception in angular-animate

[oliverzy]

Today I updated to Angular 1.4 RC0, I found an exception is thrown in this line:
https://github.com/angular/material/blame/master/src/components/sidenav/sidenav.js#L292

After looking at the document, $animate.enter and $animate.leave has different signature, I changed the line to isOpen ? $animate.enter(backdrop, parent) : $animate.leave(backdrop),, the problem solved.

[ThomasBurleson]

@oliverzy - Great catch.
Yes both Angular 1.3.x $animate and 1.4.x $animate have the same API:

• $animate.enter(element, parent, [after], [options]);
• $animate.leave(element, [options]);

The mdSideNav code is simply wrong.

[phyllisstein]

This may not be altogether germane, but it looks like some of the other changes to $animate in Angular 1.4.0-rc.0 may be causing further problems: after your change, the sidenav no longer throws an error but it doesn't exactly animate either---it just pops in and out. Downgrading to 1.4.0-beta.6 restores the animation.

[ThomasBurleson]

@phyllisstein - The Online Docs SideNav uses the $animate changes and still animates. Please provide a CodePen or Plunkr that demonstrates your issue.

[phyllisstein]

@ThomasBurleson Right you are! Couldn't reproduce it; must be something funky in my application. Sorry for the bother!

[phyllisstein]

@ThomasBurleson On second thought, I was able to reproduce it here, in Safari and Chrome: http://plnkr.co/edit/jzI6LmIWGwFPBzjJ17y3?p=preview. The issue seems to occur only when I bootstrap the application manually, with angular.bootstrap; if I set an ng-app on the document, it works as expected.

[ThomasBurleson]

Interesting...

[ThomasBurleson]

@matsko - any idea why this $animate issue is occurring with a bootstrap process ?

[ThomasBurleson]

@matsko - Here is a revised CodePen SideNav with Material and Angular.js 1.4.x that manifests this:

The interesting issue if you are not bootstrapping is the at the above error still occurs YET the SideNav animation still works. But if you bootstrap():

<script type="text/javascript">
      angular.element(document).ready(function() {
        angular.bootstrap(document, ['sidenav']);
      });
    </script>

Then the slidein animation no longer works.

[matsko]

@ThomasBurleson I'm not seeing the error in the provided plunkr. Did you intend to use another link?

[ThomasBurleson]

@matsko - I do not see the type error now
The Plunkr is now updated to use angular.bootstrap().... notice the slideIn effect is not used and the SideNav jumps into view without animations.