Clearing autoShapes by passing an empty array not working

[aaronb97]

The issue is when setting autoShapes to an empty array like so after it is set to an array of length > 0, the change is not reflected in the underlying chessground module

The crux of the problem is the merge function in config.ts in the chessground package merges the previous state and the current config (props). for const key in extend where extend is an empty array does nothing

I was able to hack around this problem by patching the render function in react-chessground/chessground.js to include

if (this.cg && this.props.drawable && this.props.drawable.autoShapes) {
  this.cg.setAutoShapes(this.props.drawable.autoShapes);
}

I think there is probably a better way to fix this, but I am not that familiar with React. I think cg.setAutoShapes needs to be leveraged somehow

[robert-j-webb]

+1 to using the chessGround setAutoShapes here - I think just adding that API to the chessground wrapper should suffice. Going to make a fork that does that (mostly for my own use but I will send a pull request)

[jlambert23]

Upgrading to chessground v7.12.0 should solve this issue