Ionic state restore give undefined error

[AmaniKhalifa]

Hello I'm getting this error always after the cordova-plugin-facebook4 plugin :

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-facebook4 Caught exception: undefined

Mind letting us know? https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli/issues

any idea what is this?

[AmaniKhalifa]

This is my package.json file:

{ "dependencies": { "@angular/common": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "@angular/compiler": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "@angular/core": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "@angular/http": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "@angular/platform-browser": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "@angular/router": "^2.0.0-rc.1", "es6-shim": "^0.35.0", "ionic-angular": "2.0.0-beta.9", "ionic-native": "^1.2.4", "ionicons": "3.0.0", "ng2-timeago": "^1.0.5", "reflect-metadata": "^0.1.3", "rxjs": "5.0.0-beta.6", "zone.js": "^0.6.12" }, "devDependencies": { "del": "2.2.0", "gulp": "3.9.1", "gulp-watch": "4.3.5", "ionic-gulp-browserify-typescript": "^1.1.0", "ionic-gulp-fonts-copy": "^1.0.0", "ionic-gulp-html-copy": "^1.0.0", "ionic-gulp-sass-build": "^1.0.0", "ionic-gulp-scripts-copy": "^2.0.0", "ng2-translate": "^2.1.0", "run-sequence": "1.1.5" }, "name": "egyfoss_mobile", "description": "egyfoss_mobile: An Ionic project", "cordovaPlugins": [ "cordova-plugin-device", "cordova-plugin-console", "cordova-plugin-whitelist", "cordova-plugin-statusbar", "ionic-plugin-keyboard", "cordova-plugin-device@~1.1.2", "cordova-plugin-console@~1.0.3", "cordova-plugin-whitelist@~1.2.2", "cordova-plugin-statusbar@~2.1.3", "ionic-plugin-keyboard@~2.2.0", "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser", "cordova-plugin-x-toast", "cordova-plugin-splashscreen@3.2", "cordova-plugin-splashscreen@3.2.0", "cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview", { "variables": { "API_KEY_FOR_ANDROID": "xxx", "API_KEY_FOR_IOS": "xxx" }, "locator": "https://github.com/phonegap-googlemaps-plugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps", "id": "cordova-plugin-googlemaps" }, { "variables": { "API_KEY_FOR_ANDROID": "xxx", "API_KEY_FOR_IOS": "xxx" }, "locator": "https://bitbucket.org/nightstomp/cordova-plugin-googlemaps-sdk.git", "id": "com.googlemaps.ios" }, "cordova-plugin-facebook4", "cordova-plugin-facebook4@~1.7.1", "cordova-plugin-network-information", "cordova-plugin-network-information@~1.2.1" ], "cordovaPlatforms": [ "android" ] }

[JStumpp]

I ran into the same problem with the phonegap-plugin-push. The reason is, that the plugins require a variable when added (e.g. --variable APP_ID="123456789" when adding the Facebook plugin). I guess ionic restore does not set this variable and so the "Caught exception: undefined" happens. This is problematic, because more and more plugins use the --variable parameter.

[JStumpp]

Try to replace the plugin "cordova-plugin-facebook4", in your package.json with the following:

    {
      "variables": {
        "APP_ID": "123456789",
        "APP_NAME:": "myApplication"
      },
      "locator": "cordova-plugin-facebook4",
      "id": "cordova-plugin-facebook4"
    },

[gngchrs]

@JStumpp do I have to do the same for all plugins? Getting the same error

[JStumpp]

@gangachris This is only necessary for the plugins that use variables. Unfortunately the "ionic restore" command (or cordova underneath) adds the plugins that are defined in json again as a plain string without the variables. So after running "ionic restore" you have to remove the added strings again from your package.json.

[bfowle]

I'm curious about any progress (or identification of a bug) on this issue. A project I'm working on has several plugins defined as objects (as they require variables to properly install) as opposed to string locators. As @JStumpp noted, any plugin that is added as an object is duplicated at the end of the cordovaPlugins section after doing an ionic state restore (or build) as strings. In addition, I'm also seeing string locators duplicated as strings with specific version numbers at the end of this section. Having multiple people work on the project at a given time, it's simply unacceptable to tell them to always do a git checkout of their package.json/config.xml after a state restore or initial build. Given a new dev checks out the codebase and does an npm i and ionic state restore|build the package.json/config.xml is immediately marked as unstaged. Cheers~

[kikill95]

Hi everyone I faced with this issue, too I tried to update cordova, ionicm Java JDK and then I tried to install plugin one by one and found that some plugins have wrong id / links in my package.json, also I found that my "locator" was wrong I changed them to correct links and it solved the problem

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