Earlier this month, there was a conversation on this thread about enabling auto
saving of plugin information to the project's config.json file
(.cordova/config.json, right?) by setting auto_save_plugins to true in the file.
I responded on that thread suggesting that users would be able to set this
value by passing the configuration value on the command line to the cordova
create command like so:
cordova create test com.johnwargo.test Test {\"auto_save_plugins\":\"true\"}
Shouldn't this be a viable way to enable users to automagically set this value?
The problem is that this CLI feature no longer seems to work. Last fall, I was
able to set the plugin search path using the following:
cordova create test2 com.johnwargo.test2 Test2
"{\"plugin_search_path\":\"d:/dev\"}"
But I just tested it (for a second time on a different system) and that
capability, passing config.json values on the command line to create, no longer
seems to be working. Did I miss something? Was this feature removed? Or should
I submit a ticket on this issue?
Currently the SAP Mobile Platform Hybrid SDK ships as a local installer, the
plugins aren't in the plugin registry or even github. The plugins have local
dependencies (the AppUpdate plugin relies upon capabilities exposed by the
Logon plugin) and the Cordova CLI isn't able to resolve them locally without
the plugin_search_path being set. We've instructed users to use this feature,
but now it seems it's not working. Can someone confirm?
Since plugin_search_path is valuable for SAP customers and auto_save_plugins is
important for this new save/restore capability, is it time to design a simpler
approach to allow developers to easily set these properties as needed for their
projects? It seems that having a create command parameter that points to a
configuration file containing default settings for the project would be a
useful thing to have.
What says the group?
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John M. Wargo
@johnwargo <http://twitter.com/johnwargo>
www.johnwargo.com <http://www.johnwargo.com>
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