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The code snippet below creates a map variable locally inside an init() function. I am getting errors such as this.map.getLayers and map.getLayers is not a function or cannot read property getLayers of undefined, depending on how I call the function updateFliter()

If I remove the var in front of map, js creates a global variable, and updateFilter() works.

How can I call updateFliter() without creating map as a global variable?

FYI, updateFilter() is implementing a CQL filter on the geoserver layers.

function init() {
    var option1 = document.createElement("option");
    var option2 = document.createElement("option");
    option1.text = "layer1";
    option2.text = "layer2";
    document.getElementById("dropdown").add(option1);
    document.getElementById("dropdown").add(option2);



    var map = new ol.Map({
        target: 'map',
        layers: [
           new ol.layer.Tile({
                source: new ol.source.OSM(),
                name: 'OpenStreetMap'
            }),
            new ol.layer.Tile({
                source: new ol.source.TileWMS({
                    url: '../../geoserver/foo/wms',
                    params: {'VERSION': '1.1.1',
                        tiled: true,
                        LAYERS: 'foo:layer1',
                        tilesOrigin: -181.800003051758     + "," + -66.7399978637695
                   }
               }), name: 'layer1'
            }),
            new ol.layer.Tile({
                source: new ol.source.TileWMS({
                    url: '../../geoserver/foo/wms',
                    params: {'VERSION': '1.1.1',
                        tiled: true,
                        LAYERS: 'foo:layer2',
                        tilesOrigin: -181.800003051758     + "," + -66.5354995727539,
                   }
               }), name: 'layer2'
            })
          ]
        }) 

    var updateFunc =     document.getElementById('updateFilterButton');
    updateFunc.addEventListener('click',     function(){updateFilter(map)});
}




//Use a CQL filter to select data to display
function updateFilter(map){
    var filterParams = {'CQL_FILTER': null};
    var filter =     document.getElementById('CQLfilter').value;
         //by default, reset all filters
    if (filter.replace(/^\s\s*/, '').replace(/\s\s*$/,     '') != "") {
        filterParams["CQL_FILTER"] = filter;
    }
        this.map.getLayers().forEach(function(lyr) {
          if (lyr.get('name') == dropdown.value){
          lyr.getSource().updateParams(filterParams);
          };
        });
}

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In the updateFilter function change this.map to just map.

Here's a minimal example (Plunker):

function init() {
    var map = new ol.Map({
      target: 'map',
      layers: [
        new ol.layer.Tile({
            source: new ol.source.OSM(),
            name: 'OpenStreetMap'
        })
      ],
      view: new ol.View({ 
          center: ol.proj.fromLonLat([0, 0]),
          zoom: 2 
      })
    }) 

    var updateFunc = document.getElementById('updateFilterButton');
    updateFunc.addEventListener('click', function(){updateFilter(map)});
}

function updateFilter(map){
    map.getLayers().forEach(function(lyr) {
      console.log(lyr)
    });
}

init()

If you are wondering why there still is a global variable map, it is due to the <div> with that ID (see this question on Stackoverflow).

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  • Thanks, that worked. I thought I had tried that already: something must have been different.
    – jgm_GIS
    Dec 22, 2016 at 19:48

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