Problem with Secure Storage plugin missing on iOS

[jonathant]

I am having an issue with the SecureStorage Cordova plugin on iOS. I want to set an item to store for later use I found that when I go to login it just sits there frozen.

The code works fine on Android and Browser platforms but iOS it just hangs. I tried in the emulator and on a physical device both have same issue.

What I have done is go from ionic-native 3.6.1 to 3.10.2 and uninstalled the secure-storage plugin from cordova and re-added it. I was thinking that there might have been an update which I did see a update in version 3.9.0.

secure-storage: reject the promise if the plugin doesn’t exist (#1562) (d5919d1)

When I run ionic cordova emulate ios -c I see this:

[17:39:07] console.warn: Native: tried accessing the SecureStorage plugin but it’s not installed.
[17:39:07] console.warn: Install the SecureStorage plugin: ‘ionic plugin add cordova-plugin-secure-storage’
[17:39:07] console.log: Angular is running in the development mode. Call enableProdMode() to enable the production mode.
[17:39:07] console.log: plugin_not_installed

I have already installed the secure storage plugin. I double check and clear enough it says it already exists.

Ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-secure-storage
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-secure-storage --save
Running command - done!
Plugin “cordova-plugin-secure-storage” already installed on android.
Plugin “cordova-plugin-secure-storage” already installed on browser.
Plugin “cordova-plugin-secure-storage” already installed on ios.
Adding cordova-plugin-secure-storage to package.json
Saved plugin info for “cordova-plugin-secure-storage” to config.xml

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Sujan12]

Paste your ionic cordova plugin list output and package.json content.

I would try removing the iOS platform and add it back again. This sometimes fixes stuff.

[jonathant]

I was curious about the dependencies of ionic-native with ionic-angular. Does it matter that I am currently running 3.10.2? Or would it be better to roll back to 3.6.1, which I see as the official version attached with 3.3.0 ionic-angular release notes.

I have tried removing and re-adding the iOS platform and it still gets the same error using ionic native 3.10.2 and cordova secure storage plugin 2.6.7.

Here is the output:

cordova plugin ls
Running command - done!
cordova-plugin-camera 2.3.1 “Camera”
cordova-plugin-compat 1.1.0 “Compat”
cordova-plugin-console 1.0.5 “Console”
cordova-plugin-device 1.1.4 “Device”
cordova-plugin-google-analytics 1.7.11 “Google Universal Analytics Plugin”
cordova-plugin-nativestorage 2.2.2 “NativeStorage”
cordova-plugin-screen-orientation 1.4.2 “Screen Orientation”
cordova-plugin-secure-storage 2.6.7 “SecureStorage”
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 4.0.2 “Splashscreen”
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.2.1 “StatusBar”
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.1 “Whitelist”
cordova-sqlite-storage 2.0.4 “Cordova sqlite storage plugin”
ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 “Keyboard”

package.json:

{
“name”: “app”,
“author”: “firstname lastname”,
“homepage”: “websiteURL”,
“private”: true,
“scripts”: {
“clean”: “ionic-app-scripts clean”,
“build”: “ionic-app-scripts build”,
“ionic:build”: “ionic-app-scripts build”,
“ionic:serve”: “ionic-app-scripts serve”
},
“dependencies”: {
“@angular/common”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/compiler”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/compiler-cli”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/core”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/forms”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/http”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/platform-browser”: “4.1.2”,
“@angular/platform-browser-dynamic”: “4.1.2”,
“@ionic-native/camera”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic-native/core”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic-native/google-analytics”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic-native/screen-orientation”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic-native/secure-storage”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic-native/splash-screen”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic-native/status-bar”: “3.10.2”,
“@ionic/storage”: “^2.0.1”,
“@ng-idle/core”: “2.0.0-beta.11”,
“@ng-idle/keepalive”: “2.0.0-beta.11”,
“cordova-android”: “^6.2.3”,
“cordova-browser”: “^4.1.0”,
“cordova-ios”: “^4.4.0”,
“cordova-plugin-camera”: “2.3.1”,
“cordova-plugin-console”: “1.0.5”,
“cordova-plugin-device”: “1.1.4”,
“cordova-plugin-google-analytics”: “1.7.11”,
“cordova-plugin-nativestorage”: “2.2.2”,
“cordova-plugin-screen-orientation”: “1.4.3”,
“cordova-plugin-secure-storage”: “^2.6.7”,
“cordova-plugin-splashscreen”: “4.0.3”,
“cordova-plugin-statusbar”: “2.2.1”,
“cordova-plugin-whitelist”: “1.3.1”,
“cordova-sqlite-storage”: “^2.0.4”,
“ionic-angular”: “3.3.0”,
“ionic-plugin-keyboard”: “2.2.1”,
“ionicons”: “3.0.0”,
“rxjs”: “5.1.1”,
“sw-toolbox”: “3.6.0”,
“zone.js”: “0.8.10”
},
“devDependencies”: {
“@ionic/app-scripts”: “1.3.7”,
“@ionic/cli-plugin-cordova”: “1.2.1”,
“@ionic/cli-plugin-ionic-angular”: “^1.2.0”,
“typescript”: “2.2.1”
},
“cordovaPlugins”: [
“cordova-plugin-whitelist”,
“cordova-plugin-console”,
“cordova-plugin-statusbar”,
“cordova-plugin-device”,
“cordova-plugin-splashscreen”,
“ionic-plugin-keyboard”
],
“cordovaPlatforms”: ,
“description”: “long sentence here.”,
“cordova”: {
“plugins”: {
“cordova-plugin-camera”: {},
“cordova-plugin-console”: {},
“cordova-plugin-device”: {},
“cordova-plugin-google-analytics”: {},
“cordova-plugin-nativestorage”: {},
“cordova-plugin-screen-orientation”: {},
“cordova-plugin-splashscreen”: {},
“cordova-plugin-statusbar”: {},
“cordova-plugin-whitelist”: {},
“ionic-plugin-keyboard”: {},
“cordova-sqlite-storage”: {},
“cordova-plugin-secure-storage”: {}
},
“platforms”: [
“android”,
“browser”,
“ios”
]
}
}

[Sujan12]

That should make no difference.

Your error message is complaining about missing the native Cordova plugin cordova-plugin-secure-storage - which seems to be installed.

Can you look into the generated /ios folder in /platforms to see if the plugin is copied inside there?
How exactly are you building your iOS app? Are other changes reflected correctly after building?

[jonathant]

Other changes are reflected correctly after being built. I have added a screenshot of my workspace showing that the platforms/ios/platform_www/plugins/cordova-plugin-secure-storage does exist and has a securestorage.js file.

I build doing ionic cordova build ios.

Here is the generated the other directory of the app’s generated xcode project has the plugin as well.

[jonathant]

Okay I fixed it. Stupid on my part. When I initially set the secure storage create() call I didn’t wrap it in a deviceready promise.