[CB-7142] Support for restoring plugin "preferences" in "restore" CLI command

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: cordova-cli, cordova-plugman
• Labels: features
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nikolai Kotchetkov
• Created: 16/Jul/14 07:08
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:17
• Resolved: 31/Jul/14 17:12

Description

Thanks for great improvement having the plugin list in config.xml!

However it will be great if "preferences" passed to plugman as variables could be saved there to.

Like:

<feature name="Custom URL scheme">
        <param name="id" value="nl.x-services.plugins.launchmyapp" />
        <param name="url" value="https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/LaunchMyApp-PhoneGap-Plugin.git" />
        <preference name="URL_SCHEME" value="VERBOSE"/>
    </feature>

I've made a rather simple fix for that in this commit

The code also has a feature of setting and using a plugin URL to install.
Two more things required:

1. To be able to specify preferences per plugin to avoid possible name conflict - that involves installing plugins one-by-one rather than in batch as far as I understand the 'plugin("add")'
2. Add support to reinstalling plugins with respect to preferences on platform add - did not dig the code yet.

It would be nice if someone comment on the issue - am I right or missing something already done. Also I can fullfill the requirement myself and issue a pull request if the feature seems handy.