Issues when url launches another plugin on iOS

[yakirn]

I believe this is not an issue with this plugin, but I hope maybe someone has managed to solve such a problem before and can help: Has anyone tried to use this plugin to launch another plugin that presents a UIViewController? please check out this SO question clarification: in my didLaunchAppFromLink I route my (backbone) app to start another plugin that uses presentViewController to present a camera screen over my cordova app. Any feedback would be appreciated, Thanks!

[nikDemyankov]

When you click on the link - app is launched with controller A. After that you handle link on the JS side and send command to your plugin to open another view controller (B). After that I don't really understood...

If in B you are trying to close it and then notify web page in controller A about the result like this:

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
     self.viewController?.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: { () -> Void in
     self.commandDelegate?.sendPluginResult(result, callbackId:self.command.callbackId);
   })
}

then I think it's wrong, because you are closing controller and then sending result. But if you execute self.viewController?.dismissViewControllerAnimated in controller B - then self.commandDelegate?.sendPluginResult is from controller B also. And he is dismissed. So that, most likely, would not work.

If you want to send results from controller B to the page from controller A - then before presenting controller B you need to set to it some delegate. Then you are finished in B - execute delegate method and pass the result to it; then close B from A. For example, as described in this tutorial.

But as I said, I might be missing some piece of the puzzle. If I do - please, correct me :)

[yakirn]

Hi @nikDemyankov thanks for your response. I will try to explain my question better. self is the code is the plugin. So if I understood you correctly your first assumption is the closest one.

app is launched with controller A - this is Cordova's VC. After that I handle link on the JS side and send command to my plugin to open another view controller (B)

then I think it's wrong, because you are closing controller and then sending result

but this works if I open the normal way (clicking the icon on the homescreen). plus, I don't really understand the problem: Plugin P presents a VC B. the user interacts with B, then later B notifies P of some event (e.g didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo) via the delegate design pattern. P then dismiss b and send a result back to cordova using sendPluginResult. So I don't understand why dismissing VC B before sending the result will have any effect (and as I said, this if working in other situations) but if are indeed suggesting that switching the order of the commands might solve this I'll give it a try. Thanks again!

[nikDemyankov]

Thanks for clarification! Then your code seems correct and should work... But yes, maybe sending result to the page before closing VC might do the trick. Although, I doubt that... I suggested that, because thought that you are closing controller B from B, not from A.

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