Unable to Re-initialize Answers After Initial Error

[creotutar]

On Answers v11, cannot run ANSWERS.init successfully after getting an error from any previous ANSWERS.init. Specifically the error when the given container class does not exist.

Steps to recreate:

1. Open a page without a div element with class ".test"
2. Load Answers Script: In Dev Tools Console

(function(document, tag) {
    var scriptTag = document.createElement(tag), // create a script tag
        firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0]; // find the first script tag in the document
    scriptTag.src = 'https://assets.sitescdn.net/answers/v0.11.1/answers.js'; // set the source of the script to your script
    firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptTag, firstScriptTag); // append the script to the DOM
}(document, 'script'));

3. ANSWERS.init with missing element and get error

ANSWERS.init({
          apiKey: 'TODO',
          experienceKey: 'TODO',
          onReady: function () {
            ANSWERS.addComponent('SearchBar', {
              container: '.test',
            });
          }
        });

4. Try ANSWERS.init on any element that exists and it will not throw an error or populate the container
   4.5. Inserting the missing element also does not work

var something = document.createElement('div');
something.addClass('test');
document.body.appendChild(something);
ANSWERS.init({
          apiKey: 'TODO',
          experienceKey: 'TODO',
          onReady: function () {
            ANSWERS.addComponent('SearchBar', {
              container: '.test',
            });
          }
        });

[rosiegrant]

@creotutar sorries i might just not understand this -- when you're setting up the Answers experience, you're calling the Answers init multiple time on the same page? "cannot run ANSWERS.init successfully after getting from any previous ANSWERS.init"

[creotutar]

yes, calling ANSWERS.init once, getting an error, fixing the error, and then calling the same ANSWERS.init again does not correctly init answers