Error trying to uninstall plugin

[sagrawal31]

Copied from wizpanda#42

Describe the bug

I had installed version 5 of the plugin but I'm using Cordova Android 8.0.
Trying to remove the plugin gave me an error.
I thought I had installed version 4, but I get the same error.

cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-firebase-lib --save
cordova-android-support-gradle-release: removed Gradle config file: platforms/android/app/cordova-android-support-gradle-release/properties.gradle
cordova-android-support-gradle-release: removed Gradle config file: platforms/android/app/src/main/cordova-android-support-gradle-release/properties.gradle
Uninstalling cordova-plugin-firebase-lib from android
Error during processing of action! Attempting to revert...
(node:7346) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Uh oh!
ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/newapp/platforms/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml'
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:551:33)
at Object.parseElementtreeSync (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/node_modules/cordova-common/src/util/xml-helpers.js:181:36)
at new AndroidManifest (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/newapp/platforms/android/cordova/lib/AndroidManifest.js:29:20)
at AndroidProject.getPackageName (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/newapp/platforms/android/cordova/lib/AndroidProject.js:92:12)
at AndroidProject.getCustomSubprojectRelativeDir (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/newapp/platforms/android/cordova/lib/AndroidProject.js:98:28)
at uninstall (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/newapp/platforms/android/cordova/lib/pluginHandlers.js:104:46)
at ActionStack.process (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/node_modules/cordova-common/src/ActionStack.js:56:25)
at PluginManager.doOperation (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/node_modules/cordova-common/src/PluginManager.js:114:20)
at PluginManager.removePlugin (/home/dev/Ionic-app/apps/node_modules/cordova-common/src/PluginManager.js:148:17)
(node:7346) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:7346) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

To Reproduce

Set up an ionic app with Cordova 8.0 (just updated to it). Ionic 3.20.1 and new Android 8.0.0 (updated).
Install the cordova-pligin-firebase-lib and remove it.
causes error.

Expected behavior

Not delete the AndroidManafest.xml file when removing the plugin.

Plugin version

I installed the latest and got the error that I was using the wrong version.
Tried to uninstall got the error above. Tried to manually remove any trace and install version 4.
Config.xml had this version.

Cleared plugin folder, removed and added android 8.0 to let it installed the plugins.
But it installed 5.1 again.
Config.xml yes 4.1.0

plugin list says
cordova-plugin-firebase-lib 5.1.1 "Google Firebase Plugin"

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Windows 10
Chrome 72

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

NA

Additional context

The real problem I'm having is getting Google Analytics to show data. Trying to get the versions correct.

[heidji]

Google Analytics will be discontinued for mobile afaik in a couple of months. Why not use Firebase instead?

[Lucab95]

I had the same problem and solved like the migration from cordova-plugin-firebase to cordova-plugin-firebasex. As follows:

rm -Rf platforms/android
cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firebasex 
rm -Rf plugins/ node_modules/
npm install
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex 
cordova platform add android

In this way, you can do a safe removal of the previous version and reinstall the updated one.
I hope it helps.

[testanddeploy]

same problem

[dpa99c]

I've done some investigation and determined the cause of the problem when uninstalling the plugin to be this line in the config.xml:

<resource-file src="src/android/google-services.json" target="."/>

This causes an error in the cordova-android platform scripts when the plugin is uninstalled.
Removing it resolves the uninstall issue.

Since the bundled google-services.json is merely a placeholder (as is GoogleService-Info.plist) that is replaced with your real Firebase project config, I have simply removed it from the plugin.