What is the configuration property packageClassList used for?

[robingenz]

There seems to be a new configuration property packageClassList. However, I could not find any documentation about it. What is it used for?

[jcesarmobile]

It's not a configuration property, it's not exposed in the definitions file.

Capacitor 6 removes the plugin auto registration as it caused crashes in very specific circumstances, and since creating a new file and adding it to a native iOS project is a bit complex, which would cause a harder migration from Capacitor 5 to Capacitor 6, it was decided to put the plugin class list in the generated capacitor.config.json. Capacitor 6 uses that list to register the plugins.

[robingenz]

Thanks for the insights! I was just wondering what it was needed for.

[shiv19]

@robingenz
I was following the Plugin tutorial from the docs.
https://capacitorjs.com/docs/plugins/tutorial/ios-implementation

I noticed that the ScreenOrientationPlugin doesn't automatically get added to the packageClassList in capacitor 6.
Is there anything I should do in addition to what is mentioned in the docs to make this work?

Android side of the tutorial is working as expected.
I'll make a PR to the start branch of the plugin tutorial repo shortly, as I have migrated it to Cap 6 and was able to follow all the steps of the tutorial.

[shiv19]

Here is the PR with the plugin tutorial migration for the start branch to capacitor 6.
ionic-enterprise/capacitor-plugin-tutorial#22 (comment)

[andrewjhogue]

@shiv19 just ran into the same issue + found the solution in Capacitor 6 docs.

Seems like you have to subclass the CAPBridgeViewController class to register custom plugins:
https://capacitorjs.com/docs/ios/custom-code#register-the-plugin

Note: To get this to work, I also had to check Inherit Module From Target when changing the View Controller Class in Main.storyboard:

[shiv19]

@andrewjhogue that must be the missing piece. Thank you 😃