Timelinesupport is not inherited from client

[FlyveHest]

It might just be the wording of the errormessage, but when you create an eventTimelineSet by hand, you have to set timelineSupport specifically in the options when creating, and not as the error message below would suggest, in the MatrixClient you supply to the function.

matrix-js-sdk/src/models/event-timeline-set.ts

Lines 358 to 364 in f9be1bf

	if (!this.timelineSupport) {
	throw new Error(
	"timeline support is disabled. Set the 'timelineSupport'" +
	" parameter to true when creating MatrixClient to enable" +
	" it.",
	);
	}

[SaujanyaMagarde]

@FlyveHest is this issue still open?

[dbkr]

I suspect it's probably more than it was never really expected that an app would instantiate an EventTimelineSet (although element web does exactly that).

[FlyveHest]

@SaujanyaMagarde I would think it is, yes. It's mostly a clarification on the wording, more than an actual issue with the code. When I set timelineSupport as part of the options when creating a new EventTimelineSet, it worked.

And as @dbkr mentions, it might not be the correct way to do things, but as someone who only has the docs and source and not an overall explanation of the various classes, it was not entirely clear to me how eventtimelines even worked.

What I am building is an historical event processor, to extract links and other information from a bots history.