Axios ReactJS - Cannot read property 'setState' of undefined

Question

I am getting an error "TypeError: Cannot read property 'setState' of undefined" while doing a simple thing in ReactJS. I am trying to use axios to fill input with response data. So far without success. I am very new to both axios and ReactJs so it might be something very simple I overlooked?

I would expect "RESPONSE TEXT" to show up in the input field in the form after the TypeError is fixed.

This is my component:

class BasicInfoBlock extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);

        this.state = { name : "EventTestName" };
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        axios
        .get(getBaseUrl()+`get`)
        .then(function (response) {
            this.setState({name: "RESPONSE TEXT"});
            //this.setState({name: response.data.name});
        })
        .catch((e) => 
        {
            console.error(e);
        });
        //this.setState({});
    }


    render(){
        return(
                <form className="form-horizontal">
                    <div className="form-group">
                        <label htmlFor="eventName" className="col-sm-2 control-label">Name</label>
                        <div className="col-sm-10">
                        <input type="text" id="eventName" className="form-control" placeholder="Event name" defaultValue={this.state.name}/>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </form>
            );
    }
}

Thank you for your help

edit: this is not a duplicate question, this questions relates to 'this' not being available in callback. Question selected as duplicate is related to bind.

Answer 1

In your Promise's then method, this will no longer refer to the component. You could fix by using an arrow function like this:

componentDidMount() {
  axios
  .get(getBaseUrl()+`get`)
  .then((response) => {
    this.setState({name: "RESPONSE TEXT"});
    //this.setState({name: response.data.name});
  })
  .catch((e) => 
  {
    console.error(e);
  });
  //this.setState({});
}