I was recently trying to solve a problem with hooks: how do I require()
cordova itself?  (I was trying to call "cordova plugin ls" and ended up
just writing my own crude inline implementation instead).  If the hooks
themselves are being require()-ed, does it simplify that problem?

-Michal


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>wrote:

> There are some *disadvantages* to not sub-shelling out for hooks:
> - Harder to capture their stdio (certainly do-able though by swapping out
> system.std* for the duration of the hook)
> - Harder to handle script failures (e.g. if they throw an uncaught
> exception, we would like to be able to say "This hook script failed:
> foo.js")
>   - Maybe this is doable, by storing a global exception-was-thrown
> callback?
> - Gives hooks the ability to mess up cordova's environment (although maybe
> the vm thing addresses this?)
>
> Would like to see tests for these things added before we launch this
> feature.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) <
> v-seg...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > +1, I will name it as 'context'
> >
> > Thx!
> > Sergey
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Bond-Caron [mailto:jbo...@gdesolutions.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:34 AM
> > To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Proposal: hooks support for plugins
> >
> > On Mon Apr 21 03:39 PM, Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) wrote:
> > > module.exports = function(platform, projectDir, pluginDir, cmdLine) {
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + platform);
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + projectDir);
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + pluginDir);
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + cmdLine);
> > >
> >
> > Personnaly prefer:
> >
> > > module.exports = function(hookApi) {
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + hookApi.platform);
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + hookApi.projectDir);
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + hookApi.pluginDir);
> > >     console.log('hook.js: ' + hookApi.cmdLine);}
> >
> > Make it easier to pass other stuff in the future & using a sandoxed
> > hookApi object.
> >
> >
> >
>

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