David once wrote a plugin that sounds exactly like what you describe: https://github.com/apache/cordova-labs/tree/cdvtest/cordova-plugin-appsettings
Just throwing that out there. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Andrey Kurdumov <kant2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > There was thread in the mailing archive where this questions was discussed: > https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cordova.apache.org/msg14313.html > > > 2014-08-06 11:40 GMT+06:00 Marc Weiner <mhweiner...@gmail.com>: > > > What about a pre-build hook that parses the config.xml file and > generates a > > config.js file, with a "CorodvaPrefs" or similar object? > > > > Marc > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Juan Cruz Viotti < > juanchivio...@gmail.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I’ve stumbled in the situation where I want to read the value of a > > > preference present in config.xml from the JavaScript side of a Cordova > > > plugin. > > > > > > My current approach is the following: > > > > > > - Create a native service (iOS in this case) with a method called > > > `getPreference` which queries `self.commandDelegate.settings`. > > > - Wait on the `deviceready` event from the plugin’s JavaScript file. > > > - Call `getPreference` with `cordova.exec`. > > > > > > I’d like to avoid this complexity and overhead and just be able to > query > > > the preferences from the JavaScript side of the plugin, without > depending > > > on the native side. > > > > > > I’ve created a StackOverflow question ( > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24939920/access-config-xml-preferences-from-javascript-plugins > > ) > > > some time ago (tagged as Cordova) but it was never answered. I’ve also > > > found a very similar question that wasn’t answered neither: > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22744269/is-there-a-cordova-plugin-to-read-values-from-config-xml?lq=1 > > > . > > > > > > I’ve looked at Cordova modules such as argscheck, channel, utils, etc > in > > > the GitHub repo (https://github.com/apache/cordova-js) however I > > couldn’t > > > find what I’m looking for. > > > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > > > > > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > --- > > > Juan Cruz Viotti, Software Engineer > > > juanchivio...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
