How to use custom Cordova plugin?

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I want to use this cordova plugin to use mDNS: https://github.com/stevenpack/phonegap-multicastdns

But there is no example code or guides, and I am quite new to angularJS and Ionic. So how to use this plugin? and how can I derive that from the plugin code?

This is what I’ve got so far:

Added the plugin:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/stevenpack/phonegap-multicastdns.git

It went ok and I now have a “plugins/com.koalasafe.cordova.plugin.multicastdns” folder.

Now I guess I will need to include it to my controller and use the functions?

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When you got no documentation, you have to open the plugin file and see what’s implemented.

In the plugin.xml file, you can see there is a <clobbers target="multicastDNS" /> tag, which means this will be the global JS variable the plugin will rely on.

After that, you open the actual .js file to see the exported methods:

module.exports = {
query: ... 
}

So, there will be a global object named multicastDNS with a query method in it.

Just call multicastDNS.query(host, multicastIP, port, successCallback, errorCallback); from your controller.

BTW, because the plugin is not documented nor tested, I believe it’s not even working as expected.

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