[CB-10832] Allow XML tags to make arbitrary edits to other XML files after prepare in config.xml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: cordova-cli
• Labels: cli prepare

Environment

All

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul Hickman
• Created: 10/Mar/16 10:29
• Updated: 10/Mar/16 10:29

Description

MSBuild has a facility to update the value of an XML tag in any XML file during the build process through an XMLUpdate task, which is configured by any xmlupdate element such as:

<XmlUpdate Prefix="n"
Namespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"
XPath="/n:Project/n:PropertyGroup/n:TestUpdate"
XmlFileName="Subversion.proj"
Value="Test from $(MSBuildProjectFile)"/>

It also has an optional delete attribute to specify the element/attribute is deleted, but the MSBuild implementation lacks an Add attribute which should be present for a complete implementation.

I propose adding the same function to Cordova's prepare function. <xmlupdate> tags could be placed directly in the root node of the configuration, or more likely in a <platform> section.

This would allow configuration of all items in the various platform's manifest files to be created/updated/deleted for the cases where there is not specialized code in "cordova prepare" to populate them.

Source code for the MSBuild implementation is here:

https://github.com/loresoft/msbuildtasks/blob/master/Source/MSBuild.Community.Tasks/XmlUpdate.cs