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bug: Geolocation.getCurrentPosition throws error on new permission dialog on iOS 14.2

See original GitHub issue

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 2.4.2
  @capacitor/core: 2.4.2
  @capacitor/android: 2.4.2
  @capacitor/electron: 2.4.2
  @capacitor/ios: 2.4.2

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/android not installed
  @capacitor/cli 2.4.2
  @capacitor/core 2.4.2
  @capacitor/ios 2.4.2
  @capacitor/electron not installed

  Found 0 Capacitor plugins for ios:
[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

iOS 14.2

Current Behavior

Calling the getCurrentPosition API results in failure during the permission check on iOS 14.2 only. Seemingly the call times out after 2 seconds of waiting on the permission dialog. Console Output from XCode via emulator:

To Native -> Geolocation getCurrentPosition 80463459 APP INACTIVE ERROR MESSAGE: {“message”:“The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCLErrorDomain error 1.)”,“errorMessage”:“The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCLErrorDomain error 1.)”} ⚡️ [error] - ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): Error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCLErrorDomain error 1.)

Expected Behavior

getCurrentPosition should wait until an option has been selected on the permission dialog.

Code Reproduction

Basic reproduction. Simply hit the ‘test’ button on tab 1 and you will see the above error in the xcode console. https://github.com/abarax/capacitor-bug

Only Code added is here:

https://github.com/abarax/capacitor-bug/blob/main/src/app/explore-container/explore-container.component.ts

https://github.com/abarax/capacitor-bug/blob/main/src/app/explore-container/explore-container.component.html

To run:

npm run build npx cap sync npx cap open ios

Run via XCode using iOS 14.2 simulator

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:10 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

5reactions

abaraxcommented, Nov 15, 2020

@zsyphon Right now our workaround is to sit in a loop checking permissions using the query permission API (https://capacitorjs.com/docs/apis/permissions) Once the permission is recognised, only then do we use getCurrentPosition.

I would love to dig in and figure out the cause here, I suspect something changed in the iOS operating system update. I actually think this was not happening on 14.2 beta as well, which is interesting.

2reactions

imhoffdcommented, Nov 18, 2020

2.4.3 is out with this fix.

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