[jira] [Resolved] (CB-13463) No way to prevent package.json update with cordova commands even with --nosave

["Audrey So (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13463?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Audrey So resolved CB-13463.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> No way to prevent package.json update with cordova commands even with --nosave
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>
>                 Key: CB-13463
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13463
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: cordova-cli
>    Affects Versions: cordova@7.0.0
>            Reporter: Andrew Crites
>              Labels: reproduced, triaged
>
> 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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