[CB-13531] cordova-geolocation not working when using wkwebview on ios11

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: cordova@7.0.0, cordova-ios 4.5.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios, cordova-plugin-geolocation, cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine

Environment

OSX 10.12.6
iOS 11.1

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Suraj Pindoria
• Reporter: Andrea Fernandes da Fonseca
• Created: 03/Nov/17 01:09
• Updated: 26/Nov/17 23:33
• Resolved: 26/Nov/17 23:33

Description

I've created two empty cordova projects with latest cordova, cordova-ios and cordova-plugin-geolocation:

• 1) one uses the default UIWebView
• 2) other uses WKWebView

Those are simple starter projects that simply try to get user GPS location.

When I open project (1) everything is fine, I get the pop-up asking me to allow location access with the message I specify, as expected.
When I open project (2) I don't get the pop-up and cannot access location information.

Tested on latest OSX and latest iOS on physical iPhone 6S and iPhone X simulator

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To recreate exactly the same conditions:

• create cordova project
• install plugins
• everything is default, except index.js that looks like this:

var app = {
    initialize: function () {
        document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.onDeviceReady.bind(this), false);
    },
    onDeviceReady: function () {
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
            function (position) { console.info(position); },
            function (error) { console.error(error); },
            { timeout: 30000 }
        );
    }
};

app.initialize();