Pattern json import and export has stopped working on Wordpress.COM

[JungleGenius]

Description

Hi All,
I'm just a random user of Wordpress.COM but considering this is the last commit to this file and the pattern json import and export was working up until two weeks ago I think this commit may have broken it. On Wordpress.COM I can no longer import pattern json files because I now get the following error "e.getLocationWithParams is not a function". I've tried contacting support over on Wordpress.COM as I have a paid hosting with them but their support is AWOL so I'm dropping this here. I may be wrong and if I am I apologize.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

On Wordpress.COM export a pattern json
Then on Wordpress.COM import a pattern json
Now you get the following error "e.getLocationWithParams is not a function".

Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet

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Environment info

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Please confirm that you have searched existing issues in the repo.

• Yes

Please confirm that you have tested with all plugins deactivated except Gutenberg.

• Yes

Please confirm which theme type you used for testing.

• Block
• Classic
• Hybrid (e.g. classic with theme.json)
• Not sure

[himanshupathak95]

Hey @JungleGenius, I also got the same error after importing the just exported pattern -

After testing the same on the trunk, I found out that it is actually history.getLocationWithParams is not a function

I will first see if there is any issue for this already, and if there isn't I'll start working on the solution.

[tyxla]

I can reproduce this on trunk and have a fix coming up.

[tyxla]

Here's a fix: #68388

[JungleGenius]

Hi Folks @ramonjd @tyxla @himanshupathak95,

Thanks you for the swift response and bug fix. I was trying to get a landing/order page up over the Holliday when I ran headlong into this bug.

I am really impressed with your team's actions once I got the bug got on your radar. (The front line Wordpress.COM user support was lacking, but it look like the dev team is really on the ball response wise).

Normally I would just create a pull request for the bug fix like I did for the Groundhog plug-in over here, but I'm not currently setup for WordPress core development (I mostly do Laravel and CodeIgniter).

The theme/plug-in editor won't let me view or debug the core files so I was kind of stuck. I ended up pasting the JSON into the pages manually to work around this, but it was buggy because the block editor needs to "resolve" the pasted json code.

I think you are going to need a dot release to get this into Wordpress.COM in the short term.

Thanks everyone. Great work.

-Daniel

[tyxla]

Thank you @JungleGenius!

Once a new version of Gutenberg is released (which I believe should be in a week from now), folks have historically tried to quickly release it to WP.com, at which point the fix should be in place there.

[gcsecsey]

Just noting here that this issue was also reported in Calypso.