Onesignal not working in ionic 6

Ionic Framework Ionic Angular
1

Hi,
i have a lot of apps with onesignal plugin, i have to update apps, but when i run application on Xcode the console return this error:

WARN: Native: tried calling OneSignal.startInit, but the OneSignal plugin is not installed.

WARN: Install the OneSignal plugin: ‘ionic cordova plugin add onesignal-cordova-plugin’

I already installed with this two command:

$ ionic cordova plugin add onesignal-cordova-plugin 
$ npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/onesignal

I tried to follow the OneSignal official guide and substitute my code with them examples, but i need the getIds() function to return the user id

getPlayer_id(){
    return this.oneSignal.getIds()
  }

Someone can help me?

PS:If doesn’t exist, for me, is good to open an issue to fix it or change the ionic documentation guide

2

Hi,
I installed only onesignal-cordova-plugin for application (both ios and android).
import OneSignalPlugin from ‘onesignal-cordova-plugin’;//app

OneSignalPlugin.setAppId(environment.ONESIGNAL_APP_ID); // on device ready

and if you want to get the Player id, use:
OneSignalPlugin.getDeviceState((response) => {
//response.userId
})

3

Hi,
i’ve already tried it.
But if i want to do return the response value to use it in another service/component?
Example:

service.ts

...
getUserId(){
   let temp;
   OneSignal.getDeviceState( (response) => {
      temp = response.userId
   }
   return temp;
}

component.ts

this.service.getUserId().then( data => {
//some code
})

//other idea
this.playerId =. this.service.getUserId()

I’ve already tried with this two method but it doesn’t work, i tried to use async await but nothing.

My actually idea is to use nativeStorage and use it to exchange the value.

4

use promises

serviceFunction (){
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
OneSignal.getDeviceState( (response) => {
resolve(response.userId);
}
})
}

componentFunction(){
this.service.serviceFunction().then((userId) => {
//userId
})
}

5

Thanks for the reply. I thought about it before but didn’t know how to set it up.
Now I tried to use the example you gave me but it fails me, the promise fails due to an undefined value. Do I need to use await async?

getUserId(){
    return new Promise<any>((resolve, reject) => {
      OneSignal.getDeviceState((response) => {
        resolve(response.userId);
      })
    })
   }

error

Error: Uncaught (in promise): TypeError: window.cordova.exec is not a function. (In ‘window.cordova.exec(deviceStateCallback, function(){}, “OneSignalPush”, “getDeviceState”, )’, ‘window.cordova.exec’ is undefined)

6

I found the error, I was calling the init function in the wrong place respect to my program logic.
Thanks for the help @buffthus

7

I recommend to modify the ionic documentation following the new onesignal documentation

8

The current ionic documentation (and capacitor and onesignal) is an abomination when it comes to using onesignal with ionic 6. This comes mainly from the fact that at first the @awesome package added types for onesignal 1 and 2, but onesignal@3 added their own TS support.

I finally got it working by looking at one of the onesignal examples, Ill try to update the documentation as far as I can next week to make sure nobody has to waste their time on it.

9

Hi Webrow, I am having the same issue. I can’t get the onesignal to work with ionic 6 in capacitor. Can you help to show how you did get it working? Thank you very much.

10

Sorry for this late reply, I have notifications turned off. Can you describe your situation?
ionic version, platform, cordova, capacitor, which version of capacitor, etc etc