This is really a nice idea. Currently I stick to cordova-qt exactly for
that reason (the Qt-Simulator is really fast and lets you emulate all
this).
However as you mentioned I strongly vote for a platform which also
supports returning static data instead of errors. This in fact could
then later on evolve to a real simulator application for cordova based
applications (by e.g. offering a popup-window which allows to tweak the
return values of the API calls).
Am 2012-03-12 14:58, schrieb Patrick Mueller:
About two weeks ago, I spent the morning working on a new 'platform'
for
Cordova, using the cordova-js framework. The original goal was to
build a
platform that doesn't require ANY native code, so that you could use
it in
the browser. Since the Cordova 'APIs' have to do >something< I
decided I'd
have them all return errors. I called the platform 'errgen', and
here's a
commit to a fork of mine with the code (and various drive-by fixes as
well):
https://github.com/pmuellr/incubator-cordova-js/commit/1e512d8fecdea91cf39dcb40013d154fbbe6637b
Seems to me like there's a couple of interesting things here:
- building a platform like this shows you what sort of internal
frameworky
things a platform has to do to get itself up and running; eg. a
platform
has to arrange to call
`require('cordova/channel').onCordovaInfoReady.fire()` when
`DeviceInfo` is
ready.
- having a platform that doesn't require any natives means you can
load it
in a desktop (or mobile) browser to see if you have any structural
issues,
and use desktop tooling like (real) Web Inspector to debug some bits.
- having a platform that returns errors every time you do something
would
be a good way to test that your application actually handles errors
correctly.
Any interest in continuing this work? There's some meta-work that
needs to
be done; eg. decide how to handle "repeat-fire" APIs (eg,
`accelerometer.watchAcceleration()`)
I could also see perhaps having a platform just like 'errgen', but
always
returns the same static-y 'success' bits all the time.
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