Cannot find namespace '$rdf'

[tiagosomda]

I went through the steps described on the readme.md and when I ran 'ng serve'

I was getting the following errors:

ERROR in src/app/services/rdf.service.ts(33,12): error TS2503: Cannot find namespace '$rdf'.
src/app/services/rdf.service.ts(41,18): error TS2503: Cannot find namespace '$rdf'.
src/app/services/rdf.service.ts(323,58): error TS2503: Cannot find namespace '$rdf'.

I checked the file src/app/services/rdf.service.ts
and the following line was commented out:
import * as $rdf from 'rdflib'

I uncommented it and the project built and I was able to load the page.

@james-martin-jd - is there a reason why that line needed to commented out?
I saw that you recently commented it out to fix an "issue where rdflib was throwing errors"
1c91ae7#diff-dca975bf5ad72321f0990d8416fddab0

[tiagosomda]

Created a pull request (#14) if you think we should uncomment it

[james-martin-jd]

That's interesting, I was getting the opposite issue where I was unable to import rdflib using this method. This was changed in a PR, where we were just declaring the variable and including it in the index.html, so I reverted back to that method to prevent the errors, which worked locally. I'll investigate.

[tiagosomda]

Do you need some info from my machine/environment to help debug that?

[james-martin-jd]

Thanks for the offer! I'm checking into it right now - I doubt it's specific to an OS at the moment. I wonder if it's something locally on my dev machine that's configured weird. Like an extra package declaration or something.

[james-martin-jd]

To follow up on this, I opened an issue on rdflib github to fix imports. When I use the import instead of <script> and declare, I get errors related to a missing package dependency, so I think this is something that needs to be fixed. Once that gets addressed I'll change everything to import, as that's the preferred way of adding files.

To be clear, it builds fine with import, but at runtime if you try to change a profile field, it fails.

[james-martin-jd]

Fixed in 0.1.6 release