On Thu Nov 14 01:44 PM, Andrew Grieve wrote: > I'm going to attempt to summarize in point form: > > Goal: > - Make available the list of installed plugins and their versions to native > side & JS > side. > - Needed by App Harness to know whether an app is compatible with its > bundled set of plugins. > > Using cordova_plugins.js: > - It doesn't have the information that we need > - We could add the extra information, but not easily since the file exports > an > array instead of an object. > - This file is not currently parsed by the native layer, so having the info > here > would be an extra IO on start-up. >
Great summary :) Is it difficult to rename ' cordova_plugins.js' to something more broad 'cordova_meta.js', ' cordova_loader.js', 'cordova_boot.js' and using an object? Since it's generated code, first impression is there's no BC issue other than doing another prepare. Doesn't seem like there's a way to avoid the extra IO on the native side (e.g. cordova_meta.js). If the detailed list of installed plugins is in xml, how will the JS side access it? Broader problem is there's no single cordova meta file that's shared between native & js. Considering that on some platforms, there's only JavaScript, putting the information in JSON seems like a good move.
