Jan Chalupa created CB-10444:
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Summary: App ID "reserved" words undocumented and too restrictive
Key: CB-10444
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10444
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Bug
Components: CordovaLib
Affects Versions: 5.4.0
Environment: MacOS X 10.10.5, Yosemite, Cordova CLI 5.4.1
Reporter: Jan Chalupa
Running the following 'cordova create' command results in an error:
$ cordova create MyApp com.company.internal.MyApp
Error: App id contains a reserved word, or is not a valid identifier.
First, the error message does not tell me which of the words in the specified
app id is reserved. I figured out it was "internal" by trial and error. I tried
to search the documentation for the list of reserved words, but could not find
anything.
Secondly, I think the list of "reserved" words is unnecessarily restrictive. I
do not see why "internal" should be banned from the app id. In fact, the team
provisioning profile we use for internal iOS development in our company
requires us to use an app id which includes "internal".
It looks like Cordova uses the valid-identifier package to decide if a word
used in the app id is reserved.
https://github.com/purplecabbage/valid-identifier
This means that no Java keyword or reserved word can appear as part of the app
id. I am not sure that's correct for the domain names used as the app/widget
id's.
Interestingly, this also means that Cordova rejects to create project with an
app id like 'in.company.something' even though it would be a perfectly valid
domain for India. The problem is that "in" happens to be a reserved word too.
Someone complained about it here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32765028/using-in-in-the-android-app-id-eg-in-example-myapp
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