Add pathPattern to allow wildcards in the URL

[sebaferreras]

When working with subdomains of a given URL, the current implementation of this plugin only allows us to set the ANDROID_PATH_PREFIX which according to Android docs:

[...] specifies a partial path that is matched against only the initial part of the path in the Intent object.

In some cases, we need a more powerful way to define the URLs that are going to be handled by our app using wildcards. For example, if we want our app to handle URLs like www.domain.com/../subdomain/.* (where the two consecutive dots could match "en", "es", "fr", "de", ...) but we don't want our app to be opened with URLs like www.domain.com/../password-reset/.*

That can be achieved using pathPattern:

The pathPattern attribute specifies a complete path that is matched against the complete path in the Intent object, but it can contain the following wildcards:

• An asterisk ('*') matches a sequence of 0 to many occurrences of the immediately preceding character.
• A period followed by an asterisk (".*") matches any sequence of 0 to many characters.

In the meantime, we've added a custom hook that modifies the AndroidManifest.xml file and replaces the pathPrefix key by pathPattern and it works as expected. So maybe ANDROID_PATH_PATTERN could be added as another optional parameter of the plugin to handle this scenario.

Thanks :)

[mcastets]

That would be a great addition to this plugin. Could you share your custom hook?

EDIT: I'm going to use <edit-config> https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/plugin_ref/spec.html#edit-config

[webberig]

I've created a gist with a working solution:
https://gist.github.com/webberig/5778cce436c547d98cc4904e7d78d743

It uses a Cordova hook to modify AndroidManifest.xml and add pathPattern rules.