Please be aware that this application / sample is provided as-is for demonstration purposes without any guarantee of support

Plugin Status - May 2018

This plugin has a known issue on Marshmallow devices & above where the scanner will not re-enable after the device has gone into and out of standby mode. Some developers have disabled & re-enabled the scanner in the onPause() / onResume() functions to get around this however I would recommend using a different approach to this problem as demonstrated in my DataWedgeCordova repository and accompanying blog post

EnterpriseBarcode

This plugin defines an enterpriseBarcode object which provides an API for interacting with the hardware scanner on Zebra devices. The enterpriseBarcode object is not available until after the deviceready event.

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
    console.log(enterpriseBarcode);
}

Installation

cordova plugin add https://github.com/darryncampbell/EnterpriseBarcodePoC.git

Requires Cordova 5.0 or higher otherwise your application will get build errors. When updating from a previous Cordova version it is necessary to re-add this plugin

Supported Platforms

• Android

enterpriseBarcode.enumerate

Returns the available hardware scanners on the device

enterpriseBarcode.enumerate(enumerateSuccess, enumerateFailure);

Description

The enterpriseBarcode.enumerate function queries the device hardware for available scanners and returns them through the success callback

Android Quirks

Barcode functionality is only available for Zebra mobile devices.

Example

Output the available scanners to the console

enterpriseBarcode.enumerate(
    function(scannersObj)
    {
        for(scanner in scannersObj.scanners)
        {
            console.log("Scanner: " + scanner.friendlyName);
        }
    },
    function(status)
    {
        console.log("Failed to Enumerate Scanners: " + status.message);
    }
);

The Scanners are also available through the enterpriseBarcode.scanners property after the device ready event.

for(scanner in enterpriseBarcode.scanners)
{
    console.log("Scanner: " + scanner.friendlyName);
}

Barcode Options

Optional parameters to customize the Scanner settings can be provided either through the setProperties method or through the enable method. These settings will persist until the application is closed.

{   code11Enabled : true,
    code128Enabled : true,
    code39Enabled : false,
    code93Enabled : false,
    dataMatrixEnabled : false,
    ean8Enabled : true,
    ean13Enabled : true,
    upcaEnabled : true,
    upce1Enabled : false,
    pdf417Enabled : true,
    friendlyName : '2D Barcode Imager'};

Options

• code11Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the Code 11 Symbology
• code128Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the Code 128 Symbology
• code39Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the Code 39 Symbology
• code93Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the Code 93 Symbology
• dataMatrixEnabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the Data Matrix Symbology
• ean8Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the EAN 8 Symbology
• ean13Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the EAN 13 Symbology
• upcaEnabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the UPCA Symbology
• upce1Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the UPCE1 Symbology
• pdf417Enabled : Enable or Disable recognition of the PDF417 Symbology
• friendlyName : Specifies which scanner should be enabled. Only applicable to options passed to the enable method.

Quirks

Not all barcode scanners will support all symbologies, for instance 2D symbologies like PDF417 will not be supported on 1D laser scanners.

enterpriseBarcode.enable

Enables the barcode scanner hardware and the associated trigger, so pressing the hardware trigger will initiate a scan.

enterpriseBarcode.enable(enableSuccess, enableFailure, barcodeOptions);

Description

The Enable method will instruct the scanning hardware to initialise and attach the trigger that can subsequently be used to initiate a scan. The success callback is called firstly to indicate that the scanner has successfully enabled and subsequently on each barcode scan (see example)

Example

enterpriseBarcode.enable(
    function(scannedObj)
    {
        if (scannedObj.status == "enabled")
            console.log("Scanner has successfully enabled");
        else
        {
            console.log("Scan Data: " + scannedObj.data);
            console.log("Scan Symbology: "  + scannedObj.type);
            console.log("Scan Time: " + scannedObj.timestamp);
        }
    },
    function(status)
    {
        console.log("Enable Failure: " + status.message);
    },
    {
        'friendlyName':'2D Barcode Imager'
    }
);

enterpriseBarcode.disable

Disables the currently enabled barcode scanner hardware and disconnects the associated trigger.

enterpriseBarcode.disable(disableSuccess, disableFailure);

Description

The Disable method will instruct the currently enabled scanning hardware to deinitialise. Calling disable without having previously enabled a scanner will have no effect.

Example

enterpriseBarcode.disable(
    function(status)
    {
        console.log("Disable Success: " + status.message);
    },
    function(status)
    {
        console.log("Disable Failure: " + status.message);
    }
);

enterpriseBarcode.setProperties

Sets any of the properties listed under barcodeOptions to the currently enabled scanner. If there is no currently enabled scanner then this method has no effect.

Example

enterpriseBarcode.setProperties(
    function(status)
    {
        console.log("Set Properties Success: " + status.message);
    },
    function(status)
    {
        console.log("Set Properties Failure: " + status.message);
    },
    {
        'code11Enabled':true,
        'code39Enabled':false
    }
);

enterpriseBarcode.getProperties

Retrieves the properties listed under barcodeOptions from the currently enabled scanner. If there is no currently enabled scanner then this method has no effect.

Example

enterpriseBarcode.getProperties(
    function(props)
    {
        document.getElementById("code11Check").checked = props.code11Enabled;
        document.getElementById("code39Check").checked = props.code39Enabled;
    },
    function(data)
    {
        console.log("Get Properties Failure: " + status.message);
    }
);