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Leroy van Engelen updated CB-9248:
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(was: Thanks for clarifying the way Cordova plugins are meant to work. It
might be a good idea to mention in the `config.xml` documentation that
`<platform>` does not apply to plugins. Currently it says:
> When using the CLI to build applications, it is sometimes necessary to specify
> preferences or other elements specific to a particular platform. Use the
> <platform> element to specify configuration that should only appear in a
> single platform-specific config.xml file.
For us, most reasons to have different plugin dependencies per platform is
because we use Phonegap Build (PGB). PGB currently provides the following
platform versions with `phonegap-version` set to `cli-5.1.1` (taken from the
defaults installed by cordova cli 5.1.1):
- Android: 4.0.2
- iOS: 3.8.0
- wp8: 3.8.1
Now, these issues come up:
- The `cordova-plugin-whitelist` plugin does not support iOS platform <= 4 (and
I suspect it does not support any platform version <= 4). Therefore we only
add it on Android
- The latest `cordova-plugin-file-transfer` on wp8 (1.2.0) uses an API that is
only available in `master` on `apache/cordova-wp8`, so we need to depend on an
older version
- The `com.phonegap.plugin.statusbar` plugin only works on iOS, so we need to
exclude it for other platforms. There are other statusbar plugins (e.g.
cordova-plugin-statusbar) but we would need to do a retest with that.
So the main issues are that the choice of default platform versions on PGB is a
bit unfortunate for us and that new versions of plugins can depend on unreleased
versions of a platform :()
> In config.xml, <plugin> inside <platform> is not supported
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> Key: CB-9248
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9248
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: CLI, CordovaLib
> Affects Versions: 5.1.2
> Reporter: Leroy van Engelen
> Assignee: Rob Paveza
>
> In config.xml it is possible to define plugins that should be installed using
> the <plugin> tag. Some plugins are not available or are buggy on certain
> platforms. Therefore we need to include them depending on the platform. I
> would expect this to be possible by wrapping them in <platform> tags, but
> these are ignored.
> The problem is that in `cordova-lib/src/configparser/ConfigParser.js` the
> methods `getPluginIdList` and `getPlugin` only top level <plugin> definitions
> are taken into account.
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