Build fails for cordova-ios 6.1.0 with this plugin

Bug Report

Unable to create build after updating to cordova-ios 6.1.0

Problem

After updating to cordova-ios 6.1.0, I added the ios platform and tried created build with ionic cordova build ios command. This gives the following error:

`warning: Could not read serialized diagnostics file: Cannot Load File: Failed to open diagnostics file (in target ‘APPNAME’ from project ‘APPNAME’)

** ARCHIVE FAILED **

The following build commands failed: CompileC /Users/akhilesh/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/APPNAME-bjbhutjdzzhywsgeqawthgfleslm/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/APPNAME/IntermediateBuildFilesPath/APPNAME.build/Debug-iphoneos/APPNAME.build/Objects-normal/arm64/CDVFileTransfer.o /Users/akhilesh/github/app-folder/platforms/ios/APPNAME/Plugins/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/CDVFileTransfer.m normal arm64 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler (1 failure) xcodebuild: Command failed with exit code 65 [ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess cordova.

    cordova build ios exited with exit code 65`

What is expected to happen?

The build process should complete without errors. When I remove this plugin, the app builds successfully.

What does actually happen?

The build process throws error and exits.

`warning: Could not read serialized diagnostics file: Cannot Load File: Failed to open diagnostics file (in target ‘APPNAME’ from project ‘APPNAME’)

** ARCHIVE FAILED **

The following build commands failed: CompileC /Users/akhilesh/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/APPNAME-bjbhutjdzzhywsgeqawthgfleslm/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/APPNAME/IntermediateBuildFilesPath/APPNAME.build/Debug-iphoneos/APPNAME.build/Objects-normal/arm64/CDVFileTransfer.o /Users/akhilesh/github/app-folder/platforms/ios/APPNAME/Plugins/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/CDVFileTransfer.m normal arm64 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler (1 failure) xcodebuild: Command failed with exit code 65 [ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess cordova.

    cordova build ios exited with exit code 65`

Information

The build process works fine if I remove the plugin. The issue only arises when this plugin is added.

Command or Code

• Create an ionic 3 project.
• Add cordova-plugin-file-transfer: ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-file-transfer
• Add cordova-ios@6.1.0: ionic cordova platform add ios@6.1.0
• Create build: ionic cordova build ios

Environment, Platform, Device

Environment: Mac OS Catalina v10.15.5 (19F101) on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) Platform: iOS 11.0 and above Device: Creating build for iPhone

Version information

Ionic:

Ionic CLI : 5.4.16 Ionic Framework : ionic-angular 3.9.2 @ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.4

Cordova:

Cordova CLI : 8.1.2 (cordova-lib@8.1.1) Cordova Platforms : android 8.1.0, ios 6.1.0 Cordova Plugins : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.2.1, (and 25 other plugins)

Utility:

cordova-res (update available: 0.15.1) : 0.10.0 native-run (update available: 1.0.0) : 0.2.9

System:

Android SDK Tools : 26.1.1 (/Users/akhilesh/Library/Android/sdk) ios-deploy : 1.9.4 ios-sim : 8.0.2 NodeJS : v10.16.3 (/usr/local/Cellar/node@10/10.16.3/bin/node) npm : 6.9.0 OS : macOS Catalina Xcode : Xcode 11.5 Build version 11E608c

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[breautek]

The plugin is deprecated…

check this blog post: https://cordova.apache.org/blog/2017/10/18/from-filetransfer-to-xhr2.html

The file transfer actually has became un-deprecated but we haven’t build a new release for it yet, so the current release is still the deprecated release. This plugin release is being blocked by some dependency, particularly the cordova-plugin-file plugin, which has failing tests.

The master branch of this plugin does have many issues resolved regarding usage on cordova-ios@6.

[pixellet14]

year 2022…so what’s the solution now?