topic Minor correction, use this in Software Archive

iOS build fails using WKWebView

Giorgio_B_1 — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:43:51 GMT

Good morning,

i tried on XDK 1621 + cordova 3.5 and XDK 1995 + cordova 4.1.3 following this guide

https://software.intel.com/en-us/xdk/docs/building-cordova-ios-app-with-wkwebview

but the build fails :( what am i doing wrong?

Thanks

The author changed the plugin

John_H_Intel2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:17 GMT

The author changed the plugin recently and looks like it has issues with dependencies. I tried to build with it and looking at the logs I found this (not sure if its helpful or not).

Fetching plugin "cordova-plugin-webserver" via plugin registry

npm http GET http://registry.cordova.io/cordova-plugin-webserver

npm http 404 http://registry.cordova.io/cordova-plugin-webserver

Failed to install 'com.telerik.plugins.wkwebview':Error: 404 Not Found: cordova-plugin-webserver

at RegClient.<anonymous> (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:268:14)

at Request.self.callback (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/index.js:148:22)

at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)

at Request.<anonymous> (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/index.js:876:14)

at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)

at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/index.js:827:12)

at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)

at _stream_readable.js:919:16

at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)

Error: 404 Not Found: cordova-plugin-webserver

at RegClient.<anonymous> (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:268:14)

at Request.self.callback (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/index.js:148:22)

at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)

at Request.<anonymous> (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/index.js:876:14)

at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)

at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/Developer/cordova/4.1.2/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/index.js:827:12)

at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)

at _stream_readable.js:919:16

at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)

Looking more I found

<dependency id="cordova-plugin-webserver" />
Expecting NPM and CLI 5.0
That version of the plugin
So the dependency is not found (a guess, but it’s not on cordova io.. if it was, it would be cordova.plugin.webserver

Its possible that a previous version of this plugin will work, but you will need to try it out.

How can i embed a previous

Giorgio_B_1 — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:17:17 GMT

How can i embed a previous version of the plugin, say 0.3.8 ? The tutorial above does not explain it.

Thanks,

You can either download the

John_H_Intel2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:50:09 GMT

You can either download the previous version of the plugin and install it locally or when you specify the .git url when adding the plugin, add the version you want to include such as this:

https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications.git@0.7.7

Minor correction, use this

PaulF_IntelCorp — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:45:38 GMT

Minor correction, use this notation to do what John is recommending:

https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications.git#0.7.7

You get the number from the "branch: master" pulldown, under the list of "tags" or from the "releases" list. The string after the hash (#) must match exactly what is in the repo. If the tag in the repo says "a-Brand-new-version" then you would do it like this:

https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications.git#a-Brand-new-version

building continue to fail, no

Giorgio_B_1 — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:11:00 GMT

building continue to fail, no matter which combination of versions i use :(

I've asked one of my

PaulF_IntelCorp — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:51:27 GMT

I've asked one of my colleagues who has worked with that plugin to reply to this thread.

I just tried adding with

Rakshith_K_Intel — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:21:17 GMT

I just tried adding with version 0.3.8, it works, add the plugin with this git url:

https://github.com/Telerik-Verified-Plugins/WKWebView.git#0.3.8

Thank you a lot, using

Giorgio_B_1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 09:07:41 GMT

Thank you a lot, using version 0.3.8 of WKWebView and version 4.1.2 of cordova i was able to build (i'm using XDK 1621).

0.3.8 is the last version without the "cordova-plugin-webserver" dependency, but the strange thing is that looking at the latest "cordova-plugin-webserver" (2.3.1) "plugin.xml" the plugin seems compatible with cordova 4.0.0+ so i can't figure out why using WKWebView 3.9.0 or 4.0.0 the build fails.

@giorio -- the problem with

PaulF_IntelCorp — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:48:15 GMT

@giorio -- the problem with the later versions of that plugin is the addition in the plugin ID of the dependent plugin requirement, this line in the plugin.xml file:

That dependency ID is only recognized by CLI 5+, does not work with CLI 4. This is a major PIA that the Apache Cordova project caused when they decided to change the ID format in order to be consistent with NPM names. Note that the old naming scheme would have worked with NPM, but they felt that it would be better to change the ID naming conventions, thinking it would be a minor thing. Unfortunately, it is turning into a major problem for this very reason.

We are aware of this problem and our doing our best to help make the transition smooth, but this is not an easy one to make transparent, so it's going to cause troubles for lots of developers as these plugin IDs get updated by the plugin authors.

Your solution is a good one, during this transition period, and I'm glad to see that is worked!