[CB-12816] Cordova platform add fails when using the npm that comes with cordova-lib

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-lib

Environment

Tested in Ubuntu 17.04 and OS X.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Remco Haszing
• Created: 15/May/17 13:21
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:57
• Resolved: 12/Jun/18 23:04

Description

When the npm version that is bundled with Cordova (2.15.12) is in PATH, adding Cordova platforms fails. The cause is that some npm packages are missing after cordova-android is installed.

I tried to reproduce this, but I accidentally triggered a slightly different error message than intended.

$ cordova create example
Creating a new cordova project.
$ cd example/
$ npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See `npm help json` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg> --save` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
name: (helloworld) 
version: (1.0.0) 
git repository: 
keywords: 
license: (Apache-2.0) 
About to write to /tmp/example/package.json:

{
  "name": "helloworld",
  "displayName": "HelloCordova",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A sample Apache Cordova application that responds to the deviceready event.",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "Apache Cordova Team",
  "license": "Apache-2.0"
}


Is this ok? (yes)
$ npm install cordova
... [TRUNCATED] ...
$ PATH="$(npm bin):$PATH" cordova platform add android
Using cordova-fetch for cordova-android@~6.2.2
Adding xmldom project...
Error: Your xmldom platform does not have Api.js

In the above example, cordova is installed in the same directory as where cordova-fetch stores them. The error I originally encountered, can be triggered using the following commands:

$ rm -r platforms/ plugins/ node_modules/
$ PATH="$(npm -g prefix)/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin:$PATH" cordova platform add android
Using cordova-fetch for cordova-android@^6.2.3
Error: Platform android already added.

The example shows the error for the android platform, but the same error occurs when using cordova-ios.