[CB-4486] iOS plugins should be able to override URL loading

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0
• Component/s: cordova-ios
• Assignee: Ian Clelland
• Reporter: Ian Clelland
• Created: 02/Aug/13 04:08
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:28
• Resolved: 06/Aug/13 20:16

Description

Android plugins have had the ability to override URL loading since approximately forever. We'd like to provide iOS plugins with the same abilities.

By modifying [CDVViewController webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:] to first iterate over all plugins, seeing if any of them implement a method to handle the URL, and then presenting the request to each of them in turn, we can allow plugins to intercept and modify or block specific URL requests.