Cordova-plugin-firebasex: bug: openUrl conflict on iOS

[DavidStrausz]

Bug report

Current behavior:

By implementing Google SignIn it is required to add an openURL handler on iOS, by doing so the notification is not propagated to the webview anymore (window.handleOpenURL is not called anymore):

As a result this plugin is incompatible with e.g. cordova-plugin-customurlscheme.

Expected behavior:
When opening an app with a custom URL scheme the notification should be propagated to the webview.

Steps to reproduce:
Use this plugin in combination with an custom URL scheme, then open the app with that custom URL scheme -> window.handleOpenURL is never called.

Environment information

• Cordova CLI version
  
  
  
  • 9.0.0 ([email protected])
  
  
• Cordova platform version
  
  
  
  • ios 5.0.1
  
  
• Plugins & versions installed in project (including this plugin)

com.verso.cordova.clipboard 0.1.0 "Clipboard"
cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release 4.0.0 "cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release"
cordova-android-support-gradle-release 3.0.1 "cordova-android-support-gradle-release"
cordova-custom-config 5.1.0 "cordova-custom-config"
cordova-plugin-add-swift-support 2.0.2 "AddSwiftSupport"
cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth 1.5.0 "FingerprintAuth"
cordova-plugin-androidx 1.0.2 "cordova-plugin-androidx"
cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter 1.1.0 "cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter"
cordova-plugin-app-version 0.1.9 "AppVersion"
cordova-plugin-badge 0.8.8 "Badge"
cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview 2.4.0 "Crosswalk WebView Engine"
cordova-plugin-customurlscheme 5.0.0 "Custom URL scheme"
cordova-plugin-device 2.0.3 "Device"
cordova-plugin-enable-multidex 0.2.0 "Enable Multidex"
cordova-plugin-firebasex 8.1.0 "Google Firebase Plugin"
cordova-plugin-inappbrowser 3.1.0 "InAppBrowser"
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0 "cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard"
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.1.2 "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview"
cordova-plugin-local-notification 0.9.0-beta.2 "LocalNotification"
cordova-plugin-nativestorage 2.3.2 "NativeStorage"
cordova-plugin-network-information 2.0.2 "Network Information"
cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller 1.6.0 "SafariViewController"
cordova-plugin-sms-retriever-manager 0.0.2 "Device"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.3 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.3 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-taptic-engine 2.1.0 "Taptic Engine"
cordova-plugin-touch-id 3.3.1 "Touch ID"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.4 "Whitelist"

• Dev machine OS and version, e.g.
  
  
  
  • macOS Catalina
    
    
    
    
    
    • 10.15
    
    
    
  
  

Related code:
The problematic override was added here:
https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-plugin-firebasex/blob/4c9a5275bc957efb4a921acfd8816624bcc53af0/src/ios/AppDelegate%2BFirebasePlugin.m#L129

handleOpenURL notification in CDVPlugin:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/blob/29224370fff52dd3ee210bdf49571f338c0770c6/CordovaLib/Classes/Public/CDVPlugin.m#L130

Other information:

Cordova triggers a notification (handleOpenURL) when the app is opened by a custom url which is broadcasted to all plugins, this notification can be used instead of overriding the global openURL handler. Related Cordova documentation can be found here

[dpa99c]

Thanks for reporting - I didn't realise CDVPlugin exposed a handler for this method.
It should therefore be possible to modify this plugin to use the override instead on an app delegate which should resolve the issue.

[DavidStrausz]

@Yeah I also did not know about all the handlers that are available until I ran into this issue and did some research on possible solutions! :)

[dpa99c]

v9.0.0 has now been published which fixes this issue