Issue with `<privacy-manifest>` and `cordora prepare ios`

[shajz]

Issue with `` and `cordora prepare ios`

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[shajz]

@Yura13 I was using xml2js https://www.npmjs.com/package/xml2js which doesn't preserve XML elements order. I switched to https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-xml-parser.

Here's the code (quick and dirty js) :

// Parse config.xml, edit app & package name and save the changes

import { XMLBuilder, XMLParser } from "fast-xml-parser";
import { readFile, writeFile } from 'fs';

const configFile = "config.xml";

const commonOptions = {
  preserveOrder: true,
  ignoreAttributes: false,
  allowBooleanAttributes: true,
  commentPropName: "#comment",
  unpairedTags: [
    'content',
    'access',
    'allow-navigation',
    'preference',
    'allow-intent',
    'param',
    'hook',
    'application',
    'custom-preference',
    'resource-file',
    'icon',
    'splash',
    'true',
  ],
}

const parser = new XMLParser({
  ...commonOptions,
  ignoreDeclaration: false,
});

const builder = new XMLBuilder({
  ...commonOptions,
  suppressUnpairedNode: false,
  format: true,
});

export function updateConfigFile(overrides) {
  readFile(configFile, "utf-8", (err, data) => {
    if (err) {
      throw err;
    }

    const result = parser.parse(data);

    /** Overrides */
    if (overrides?.['android-packageName']) {
      result[1][':@']['@_android-packageName'] = overrides['android-packageName'];
    }

    if (overrides?.['ios-CFBundleIdentifier']) {
      result[1][':@']['@_ios-CFBundleIdentifier'] = overrides['ios-CFBundleIdentifier'];
    }

    if (overrides?.name) {
      result[1].widget = result[1].widget.map((obj) => ((obj?.name != null) ? {...obj, name: [ { '#text': overrides.name } ] } : obj));
    }

    const xml = builder.build(result);

    // write updated XML string to a file
    writeFile(configFile, xml, { encoding: "utf-8" }, (err) => {
      if (err) {
        throw err;
      }

      console.log(`Updated XML is written to a new file.`);
    });
  });
}

You can adapt the overrides part to your usecase, the syntax is weirder than xml2js but the order is preserved with the provided options :)

Saved this as a .mjs file so I could use import syntax safely but you can use require with .js files.

call it like this in your cordova hooks

updateConfigFile({
  'android-packageName': 'com.your.package',
  'ios-CFBundleIdentifier': 'com.your.package',
  name: 'Your app name',
});

Sorry I let this up without providing a solution https://xkcd.com/979/ 😅

[shajz]

Oops, I forgot that my app edits the config.xml with a cordova hook and that's the source of my problem. Sorry for the spam

[Yura13]

@shajz
I have the same problem. How do you resolve it?