[CB-10500] cordova restore/prepare CPR plugin fails silently

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.1
• Component/s: cordova-lib
• Labels: cordova-fetch triaged
• Assignee: Steve Gill
• Reporter: Steve Gill
• Created: 01/Feb/16 23:20
• Updated: 03/May/17 07:20
• Resolved: 09/May/16 22:25

Description

add the following line to your config.xml

<plugin name="com.pushwood.plugins.pushwoosh" spec="~4.1.0" />

do cordova prepare and you will notice get these two lines

Discovered plugin "com.pushwoosh.plugins.pushwoosh" in config.xml. Installing to the project
Fetching plugin "com.pushwoosh.plugins.pushwoosh@~4.1.0" via npm

Problem is, that plugin doesn't get installed and doesn't actually get fetched because it doesn't exist on npm. It is failing silently.

If I add the plugin via `cordova plugin add com.pushwoosh.plugins.pushwoosh@~4.1.0`, I get the error message:

Error: Failed to fetch plugin com.pushwoosh.plugins.pushwoosh@~4.1.0 via registry.
Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect.
Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL.
Error: Registry returned 404 for GET on https://registry.npmjs.org/com.pushwoosh.plugins.pushwoosh

Seems to me it is a problem with save restore work not catching the error message.

Issue Links

• relates to: CB-10921 Plugin not installed when variable not supplied, no error message