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Andrew Grieve commented on CB-5671: ----------------------------------- Totally agree that being more flexible here would be a great thing. > facilitate dynamic loading of cordova plugins > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: CB-5671 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5671 > Project: Apache Cordova > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: CordovaJS > Affects Versions: 3.2.0 > Environment: any > Reporter: Jon Whitlock > Labels: javascript > > Problem: Cordova expects resources to be loaded off the device filesystem. > 1) On iOS this is very risky due to the turnaround time pushing hotfixes > through the App store. > 2) In complex JS applications one needs to use a loader like require.js to > manage async loading (especially on mobile) & module dependancy management > (as cordova does internally). > 3) When integrating with many 3rd-party services like auth/"social login" one > needs to have a public-facing page to call back to. > Use case: We have a bunch of prereqs before cordova.js loads, so we have to > load cordova.js using require.js. However to show localised error messages > we need the preferred language from the device to know which language to show > messaging in, so we need cordova loaded as part of auth prerequisites. > Problematic Assumptions: > a) findCordovaPath() assumes a script tag in the document loaded cordova.js > -- not the case with require.js or similar. > b) injectPluginScript() assumes that cordova_plugins.js is in the same dir as > cordova.js > So using plugins & dynamically loading Cordova is terminal, unless I hack > findCordovaPath() to return (in our case) the path where cordova.js is to be > found -- which is defined in a JS configuration file. > I think it would be more robust to define the location of those file(s) in a > config file somewhere -- which could also facilitate dynamic loading of > cordova. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)