bug: cordova plugin pods are not installed

[ryaa]

Bug Report

I installed this plugin https://github.com/SonoIo/cordova-plugin-salesforce-snapins and getting the below error when trying to build. it seems the problem seems to be that the required pods have not been installed.

Capacitor Version

npx cap doctor output:
💊 Capacitor Doctor 💊

Latest Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli: 2.0.1

@capacitor/core: 2.0.1

@capacitor/android: 2.0.1

@capacitor/ios: 2.0.1

Installed Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli 1.5.1

@capacitor/ios 1.5.1

@capacitor/core 1.5.1

@capacitor/android 1.5.1

[success] Android looking great! 👌
Found 4 Capacitor plugins for ios:
cordova-plugin-android-fragmentactivity (0.0.6)
cordova-plugin-cocoapod-support (1.6.2)
cordova-plugin-salesforce-snapins (1.0.4)
cordova.plugins.diagnostic (5.0.1)
[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Affected Platform(s)

• Android
• iOS
• Electron
• Web

Current Behavior

After the plugin is installed and i try to build in XCode i'm getting the below error

Expected Behavior

The app should build and run successfully

Reproduction Steps

1. create new ionic 5/angular/capacitor project and install this plugin https://github.com/SonoIo/cordova-plugin-salesforce-snapins and try to build

Other Technical Details

npm --version output:
6.14.4

node --version output:
v12.16.1

pod --version output (iOS issues only):
1.7.5

Other Information

Here is the build error details

[ryaa]

The problem seems to be that this https://github.com/SonoIo/cordova-plugin-salesforce-snapins plugin depends on https://github.com/blakgeek/cordova-plugin-cocoapods-support to install the required pods and the latter cordova-plugin-cocoapods-support cordova plugin runs after_prepare hook to do its job and install the dependencies. Since capacitor does not support cordova hooks this is expected behaviour and not a capacitor problem.

I assume that this issue can be closed (if someone confirms the above). Thank you.

[jcesarmobile]

It's not because of the hooks, but because of it uses a custom syntax for pod dependencies that Capacitor doesn't understand.
Not sure why they use that plugin, cordova has supported CocoaPods for a long time, they should update to use the podspec tag
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/plugin_ref/spec.html#podspec-ios

I've created a feature request issue to read the syntax that plugin uses #2773
Also noticed that Capacitor doesn't support sources for pods, which that plugin would need. created this issue for that #2774

going to close as incompatible plugin

[ionitron-bot]

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