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Adam George updated CB-5882: ---------------------------- Description: When adding new plugins, or modifying a plugin (such that the plugin may have new permissions, or new files to copy), the ios.json and android.json plugin files are modified/updated. The problem with that is the json contents is not formatted, and appears as one long line of text. I run `git diff` and I can't see what changed. It's quite annoying. I'm currently putting these files into version control. Maybe in the future when the CLI is more mature, I can treat them like build artefacts and git-ignore them, but for now I need to keep them, so they really need to be more readable. Is it possible to format the json data before writing the file? was: When adding new plugins, or modifying a plugin (such that the plugin may have new permissions, or new files to copy), the ios.json and android.json plugin files are modified/updated. The problem with that the json contents is not formatted, and appears as one long line of text. I run `git diff` and I can't see what changed. It's quite annoying. I'm currently putting these files into version control. Maybe in the future when the CLI is more mature, I can treat them like build artefacts and git-ignore them, but for now I need to keep them, so they really need to be more readable. Is it possible to format the json data before writing the file? > Format android.json and ios.json (plugins directory) - currently they have no > line breaks / indentation > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CB-5882 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5882 > Project: Apache Cordova > Issue Type: Bug > Components: CLI > Affects Versions: 3.3.0 > Reporter: Adam George > Priority: Minor > > When adding new plugins, or modifying a plugin (such that the plugin may have > new permissions, or new files to copy), the ios.json and android.json plugin > files are modified/updated. > The problem with that is the json contents is not formatted, and appears as > one long line of text. > I run `git diff` and I can't see what changed. It's quite annoying. > I'm currently putting these files into version control. Maybe in the future > when the CLI is more mature, I can treat them like build artefacts and > git-ignore them, but for now I need to keep them, so they really need to be > more readable. > Is it possible to format the json data before writing the file? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)