Andrew Crites created CB-13463:
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Summary: No way to prevent package.json update with cordova
commands even with --nosave
Key: CB-13463
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13463
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Bug
Components: cordova-cli
Affects Versions: [email protected]
Reporter: Andrew Crites
With Cordova 7, cordova commands including {{cordova platform add}} and
{{cordova prepare}} will copy plugin information from {{config.xml}} to
{{package.json}}.
According to [the saving platforms
documentation|https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/platform_plugin_versioning_ref/],
using {{--nosave}} should prevent updating {{package.json}} or {{config.xml}},
but this does not work (i.e. using {{--nosave}} still seems to update the
{{package.json}}.
I want to avoid updating {{package.json}} specifically because there doesn't
seem to be a way to avoid hard coding variables for plugins. An example is the
cordova fabric plugin:
{code}
<plugin name="cordova-fabric-plugin" spec="^1.1.9">
<variable name="FABRIC_API_KEY" value="a" />
<variable name="FABRIC_API_SECRET" value="b" />
</plugin>
{code}
Cordova doesn't seem to provide a way for you to parameterize variables in the
configuration. To get around this, I have {{build.config.xml}} where they are
parameterized, and {{config.xml}} is created at install-time and not version
controlled. However, this would be much more difficult to do with
{{package.json}} and is practically not an option.
When running {{cordova platform add ios --nosave}} with the above plugin,
cordova still updates {{package.json}} to include the fabric plugin with the
hard coded variables.
* Cordova 6 question (with solution):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37816035/using-environment-variables-parameterizing-config-xml
* Cordova 7 question (no solution yet)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46816928/parameterize-do-not-hard-code-variables-when-building-with-cordova-7
Ideally {{--nosave}} would not update {{package.json}} as advertised. Even
better, there should be a way to set up a cordova project so that any cordova
commands do not save by default. This would prevent mistakes in a larger team
and allow use of tools that wrap cordova such as ionic.
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