Hi! In [0] Anis explains that each platform has to provide a handler for installing/uninstalling at least files of the type "source-file", even if they do nothing. Now, AIUI, source-file refers to adding platform-specific source code which ends up as "native" code (C#, java, objective C ,etc.).
I tend to look at FirefoxOS when I implement corresponding support for Tizen, because the two platforms share one important characteristic: All functionality needed to provide the APIs offered by plugins is itself available as JavaScript. So, there's no need for any "native" code. All plugins are basically wrappers around existing JS objects provided by the underlying runtime. So, my (n00bish) questions are: - Why does FirefoxOS have an implementation of source-file, header-file, resource-file, framework, lib-file that does anything other than nothing? The fact that there's no firefoxos.spec.js that tests any of those install/uninstall routines strongly suggests to me that they are, in fact, stubs, or, at worst, incorrect code that nevertheless never gets executed. - Knowing that Tizen will never need to distribute any "native" source files, can I just add two empty functions for the install/uninstall of each of "source-file", "header-file", "library", etc.? - If I do the above, I cannot really add a test to tizen.spec.js for a function that does nothing. Is it OK to not have such tests? I ask these questions because I would like to write good tests for the Tizen plugman support, as per Anis' final comment[1] on my plugman PR[2] and I got kinda stuck trying to write a test for source-file, because I copied the implementation verbatim from FirefoxOS, and there's no firefoxos.spec.js that would allow me to see how these install/uninstall routines are supposed to be tested for a platform that will never use them, and synthetically adding source files, header files, and stuff like that to the Tizen-specific section of the dummy plugin for the specific purpose of testing code that will never be used seems like a waste of time. Please help a n00b out :) Gabriel [0] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/pull/67#discussion_r11004412 [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/pull/67#issuecomment-38799304 [2] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugman/pull/67