Do other platforms have similar issues? One thought - since our plugin list in the plist is already "name based", just augment the name. Change the "class" name of "CDVLocalStorage" to "CDVLocalStorage+LoadAtStart" or something.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > How are plugins loaded in the other platforms? > > Right now in iOS, a plugin is lazily loaded, that is - it is loaded > only on first time use. There is a case for loading plugins at startup > - like my iOS 5.1 local storage fix (CDVLocalStorage). Right now that > plugin is hard-coded to load at startup, but I would like there to be > a general plugin loading at startup feature in Cordova (at least iOS). > > In iOS, we have the "Plugins" key in Cordova.plist. Unfortunately - we > can't just add a checkbox to the list since it's an Array. What I'm > proposing (as a quick thing) is to add another Array in Cordova.plist > for plugins that should be loaded at startup, say, a key called > "Startup". > > The alternative is to change the "Plugins" Array of Strings to a > Dictionary - then the Dictionary key will be the plugin Name and the > Dictionary value would be a boolean saying whether it should be loaded > at startup. But I tried it in Xcode, and the checkbox could be > confused with whether the plugin is "enabled" or not. > > Yet another alternative is to change the "Plugins" Array of Strings to > a "Plugins" Array of Dictionaries. Each dictionary would have two > keys: "Name" (String), and "LoadOnStartup" (Boolean). Then it won't be > ambiguous. > > Having a separate "Startup" list would be advantageous: > > 1. We don't have to make users upgrade their Cordova.plist/Plugins > (backwards compatibility) > 2. It is unambiguous what it is for (vs the changing > Cordova.plist/Plugins to a Dictionary) > -- Patrick Mueller http://muellerware.org
