cordova-config

Parse and edit the config.xml file of a cordova project.

This project is based on the cordova-config repo (https://github.com/SamVerschueren/cordova-config) and the cordova-config-cli (https://github.com/ragingwind/cordova-config-cli/blob/master/package.json).

Install

npm install --save config-cordova

Programmatic Usage

const Config = require('cordova-config');

// Load and parse the config.xml
const config = new Config('config.xml');
config.setName('My application');
config.setDescription('This is the description of my application');
config.setAuthor('Sam Verschueren', '[email protected]', 'https://github.com/SamVerschueren');

// Write the config file
config.writeSync();

API

Config(file)

Loads and parses the file.

file

Required
Type: string

The path to the config.xml file.

#setName(name)

Sets the <name>name</name> tag in the xml file.

name

Required
Type: string

The name of the application.

#setElement(tag, [text], [attribs])

Sets a <tag>text</tag> tag in the xml file.

tag

Required
Type: string

The name of the element.

text

Type: string

The element text.

attribs

Type: object

The element attributes

#setDescription(description)

Sets the <description>description</description> tag in the xml file.

description

Required
Type: string

The description of the application.

#setAuthor(name [, email [, website]])

Sets the <author email="email" href="website">name</author> tag in the xml file.

name

Required
Type: string

The name of the author.

email

Type: string

The email address of the email.

website

Type: string

The website of the author.

#setVersion(version)

Sets the version attribute of the widget tag in the xml file.

version

Required
Type: string

The version in the format x.y.z.

#setAndroidVersionCode(version)

Sets the android-versionCode attribute of the widget tag in the xml file.

version

Required
Type: number

The Android version code.

#setAndroidPackageName(packageName)

Sets the Android package name of the config file.

packageName

Required
Type: string

The android package name.

#setIOSBundleVersion(version)

Sets the ios-CFBundleVersion attribute of the widget tag in the xml file.

version

Required
Type: string

The version in the format x.y.z.

#setIOSBundleIdentifier(identifier)

Sets the iOS CFBundleIdentifier of the config file.

identifier

Required
Type: string

The iOS CFBundleIdentifier.

#setPreference(name, value)

Adds a <preference name="name" value="value" /> tag to the xml file.

name

Required
Type: string

The name of the preference tag.

value

Required
Type: string|boolean

The value of the preference.

#removeAccessOrigins()

Removes all the <access /> tags in the xml file.

#removeAccessOrigin(origin)

Removes the <access /> tag with the origin equal to the parameter.

origin

Required
Type: string

The origin of the access tag you want to remove.

#setAccessOrigin(origin [, options])

Adds an <access /> tag to the xml file.

origin

Required
Type: string

The origin of the access tag.

options

Type: object

A map with extra attributes that will be added to the access tag.

#setID(id)

Sets the ID of the config file.

id

Required
Type: string

The id of the widget tag.

#addHook(type, src)

Adds the hook with type and src. see Apache Cordova API Documentation for more info.

type

Required
Type: string

Cordova hook type. ex) 'after_build', 'after_compile', 'after_clean'

src

Required
Type: string

Src path of hook script

#addRawXML(xml)

Adds a raw xml element to the root of the config file.

xml

Required
Type: string

A raw xml element. You can only pass in one element with one root.

#write()

Writes the config.xml file async.

Resolves a promise when the file is written.

#writeSync()

Writes the config.xml file synchronously.

CLI Usage

$ config-cordova <actions> <config> <value> <options>

Examples

$ config-cordova set name "New Name"
$ config-cordova set name "New Name" --config=../config.xml
$ config-cordova add hook after_prepare script/after_prepare.js --config=../config.xml
$ config-cordova rm access-origin "*" --config=../fixtures/config.xml

Actions and configs

• set: name, desc, author, version, android-version, ios-version
• add: preference, access-origin, xml, hook
• rm: access-origin

Values

See config-cordova APIs to find value signature of the method

Options

• --config: required, string, path of config.xml if not set? use a current path for reading'

License

MIT © Sam Verschueren