feat(ios): Plugin Registration and Plugin Instance Support #6072
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ability to register instances of plugins so that plugins can be instantiated by the user instead of relying on the bridge.
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This is an effort to solve problems we see in Portals as we now have customers using Capacitor with new use cases:
All of these features are additive and do not affect status quo Capacitor users and is explicitly opt-in. |
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| func registerPlugin(_ pluginClassName: String, _ jsName: String, _ pluginType: CAPPlugin.Type) { | ||
| func registerPlugin(_ jsName: String, _ pluginType: CAPPlugin.Type) { |
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I removed pluginClassName because it was no longer used. It being internal I removed it to avoid having to do NSStringFromClass to pass in a value that wasn't used.
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definition to its own file. Make `autoRegisterPlugins` a get-only property since the bridge decides whether or not to auto-register on initialization and setting it at any time after init would do nothing.
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Hey @Steven0351, does this change (and related android change) allow to load plugins dynamically at runtime as/when/if needed? I am aksing this we are having several plugins in our app and this is causing slow application start so deferring the plugin loading would be great. Also, some of the users would never need some of the plugins so by loading them if needed would reduce app start time. Thanks! |
@co-dax, I can't say for sure since that wasn't the use case I created this for and I didn't test for it. However, you might give it a try and see what happens. I think the question on whether or not it would work depends on how eagerly the parts of your app that depend on those plugins are loaded in the webview. With code-splitting it may not be much of an issue, but I'm sure that can change on a case-by-case basis. |
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thanks @Steven0351 ! |
feat(ios): Adds support for manual registration for plugins and the ability to register instances of plugins so that plugins can be instantiated by the user instead of relying on the bridge.