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From: "Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon)" <v-segreb@microsoft.com>
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Subject: RE: Windows8/WP8 Proxy and Windows Runtime Components support
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:44:00 +0000
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Great, I'll test this as soon as you pushed the changes, looking forward..
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-Sergey
-----Original Message-----
From: purplecabbage@gmail.com [mailto:purplecabbage@gmail.com] On Behalf Of=
 Jesse
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 12:54 PM
To: dev@cordova.apache.org
Subject: Re: Windows8/WP8 Proxy and Windows Runtime Components support

Yes, I am currently working on changes to plugman to support this.
Issues are : CB-5984 and CB-5970

I should have CB-5984 wrapped up tomorrow, or early next week, so you can a=
dd/remove .dlls as plugins for both WP8 + Windows8.
This should handle the use case for most plugin developers.  I assume durin=
g development they would just manually add a project reference to their nat=
ive code project, and when it comes time to ship their plugin, checki-n the=
 pre-built dlls.
There are potentially issues with 64bit/32bit/arm, but this is something we=
 can look at.

Adding project references ( CB-5970 ) is a little more involved because the=
 .sln file format ( text based ) is not as easily modified as .jsproj/.cspr=
oj/... which are all well formed xml.

The WebSQL plugin is interesting, but I am not excited to see us perpetuate=
 a deprecated spec.  I would be more excited to see indexedDB use move forw=
ard, however that is firmly in the iOS/Android ballpark. Just my opinion ..=
.

Re: proxy modification.  I don't expect it would be needed, based on howeve=
r the plugin developer defines their API.  Native calls ( inside the plugin=
.js file ) could technically be routed through the proxy. but there would b=
e little benefit when they can just call the exposed native APIs directly. =
 Ultimately I see this as a plugin developer decision, but we can provide e=
xamples and guidance as well.


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) < v-segreb@micros=
oft.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Working on WebSQL polyfill for Windows8 and WP8 platforms which will=20
> be exposed as Cordova plugin I found out that there are PCL libraries=20
> with all required functionality. But I need to write two different=20
> Plugin wrappers - one for WP8 on C# and another one for Windows8 on=20
> JS. I'm wondering if we can add Plugins support written as Windows=20
> Runtime Component[1]
>
> I imagine developers will be able to use this feature as following:
>
> 1.       Write C# library which exposes all required functionality,
> handles plugin arguments and callback calls; use conditional compile=20
> directives if need access to platform specific api; or it could be=20
> exactly the same if it is just a Cordova wrapper around another library.
>
> 2.       Compile two different versions - WP8 / W8, place them accordingl=
y
> to plugin folder structure and specify to be linked during plugin=20
> installation.
>
> Benefits:
>
> 1.       Write once, deploy to both WP8 and Windows8.
>
> 2.       Use C# if you are more comfortable with it.
>
> This involves the following:
>
> 1.       Support of linking libraries on WP8, Windows8. It seems Jesse is
> already working on this.
>
> 2.       Windows8 proxy modification
>
> I can do further investigation and create a prototype of other devs=20
> think this is interesting too. Thoughts?
>
> [1]
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh779077%28v=3Dvs.1
> 10%29.aspx
>
> Thx!
> Sergey
>