[CB-4034] Cordova fails to initialize if loading startPage from non application bundle location

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios

Environment

XCode 4.6.3
iOS, Cordova 2.8, 2.9

• Assignee: Andrew Grieve
• Reporter: Aleksey Yashchenko
• Created: 27/Jun/13 19:03
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:28
• Resolved: 02/Dec/13 20:14

Description

When loading webview content from outside application bundle (from app Documents folder) Cordova fails to initialize correctly:

• no deviceready event
• some plugins are not working (e.g. Contacts plugin)

There are several other unwanted effects, e.g. when accessign geolocation data user asked for permission twice - first time for the whole app (I assume by the system), second time for loaded page (by webview?).

To reproduce the effect:

• create fresh cordova project
• built/run
• from XCode Organized download application content bundle
• create "Documents/www/*" folder with some tests inside (content of original www folder suits well)
• change AppDelegate:

  // Set your app's start page by setting the <content src='foo.html' /> tag in config.xml.
  // If necessary, uncomment the line below to override it.

  self.viewController.startPage = [[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[[MainViewController applicationDocumentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"www"] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"index.html"]] absoluteString];

  self.viewController.wwwFolderName = [self.viewController.startPage stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];

• see successful page load event in console log:

  ...Resetting plugins due to page load.
  2013-06-27 21:54:13.329 HelloWorld[6483:907] Finished load of: file:///var/mobile/Applications/78E63640-C185-401A-9FEE-9B325F8B9881/Documents/www/index.html

• deviceready event is not there

Issue Links

• is related to: CB-3029 remote page loading 2.6.0 cordova js file not work