[CB-2699] Bug in dynamic loading of a plugin at CDVViewController's registerPlugin method

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios

Environment

iOS 6.1

• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Jukka Zitting
• Created: 18/Mar/13 14:42
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 10:41
• Resolved: 20/Mar/13 23:39

Description

When loading a Cordova plugin later on in application run-time with the registerPlugin method, the plugin is not loaded correctly and the plugin cannot be used. This happens when the plugin is not defined in the config.xml. In our project we have a view which runs "widgets" that are downloaded from a server and these widgets use some Cordova plugins, but we don't know beforehand what plugins they use, so we don't want to add them to config.xml.

Apparently registerPlugin method adds the plugin to pluginObjects but doesn't add it to the pluginsMap. So we have to do a hack and add the plugin to the pluginsMap ourselves after registering the plugin.