[CB-12409] Plugman is unable to uninstall a plugin with a config preferences containing '*'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Component/s: cordova-plugman

Environment

OS: MacOS
$ plugman -version => 1.4.1
$ cordova -version => 6.5.0

• Assignee: Nikita Matrosov
• Reporter: Kris Vandermast
• Created: 31/Jan/17 11:40
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:43
• Resolved: 05/Jun/17 10:02

Description

A Cordova plugin we wrote uses a "group filter" which is injected into the iOS app's plist file. The group filter can contain a "*" value, which is default in the Plugin.xml

Plugin.xml

<platform name="ios">
        <config-file target="config.xml" parent="/*">
             ...
        </config-file>  

        <preference name="GROUP_FILTERS" default="*" />

        <config-file target="*-Info.plist" parent="ConfigKey">
           <dict>
              <key>GroupFilters</key>
              <string>$GROUP_FILTERS</string>
            </dict>
        </config-file>

The installation behaves as expected, and the group filter can actually be found in the plist file.

$ plugman install --platform ios --project ./platforms/ios/ --plugin <plugin> --variable GROUP_FILTERS="*" 

Installing "<plugin>" for ios

It is only when you try to uninstall the plugin, that an error occurs.

$ uninstall --platform ios --plugin <plugin> --project ./platforms/ios/
Uninstalling <plugin> from ios
Invalid regular expression: /^*$/: Nothing to repeat

Work-around: manually delete all the references from the Cordova project and reinstall the plugin.
Escaping the variable when passing it as parameter seems to work.