Question

Phonegap notifications (navigator.notification.alert and navigator.notification.confirm) are not working while using shouldStartLoadWithRequest for URL request processing.

Javascript:

function onBodyLoad() {
  document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
}
function onDeviceReady() {
  navigator.notification.alert("Cordova is working");
}

Objective C:

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView2
shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
  navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType{
    if ([[[request URL] absoluteString] hasPrefix:@"js-call:"]) {
      // Extract the selector name from the URL
      NSString *requestString = [[request URL] absoluteString];
      NSArray *components = [requestString componentsSeparatedByString:@":"];
      NSString *function = [components objectAtIndex:1];
      NSLog(@"the function name is  %@",function);
      // Call the given selector
      [self performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(function)];
      // Cancel the location change
      return NO;
    }
    return YES;
  }

Please help me out.

Answer 1

Ran into very similar issue. Changing the last line

return YES;

to

return [super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType];

All commands to plugins go through gap:// bridge. shouldStartLoadWithRequest gets called for every such call. So, defaulting to YES appears to be the issue. When in fact, it should return NO for gap:// calls.