Podfile multiple targets generated if single quote is used in app name

[mikealo]

Bug Report

Podfile multiple targets generated if single quote is used in app name, this issue is not created if app does not contain single quote

Problem

If a single quote is used in the app name for example "Test's single quote" and there is any additional plugin that use any pod library then the podfile generated contains multiple targets and cordova fail the plugin installation

What is expected to happen?

The podfile generated should look like this:

platform :ios, '9.0'
target 'Test\'s single quote' do
	project 'Test\'s single quote.xcodeproj'
	pod 'GoogleMaps', '~> 2.0.0'
end

What does actually happen?

The podfile generated look like this:

platform :ios, '9.0'
target 'Test\'s single quote' do
	project 'Test\'s single quote.xcodeproj'
end
target 'Test\'s single quote' do
	project 'Test\'s single quote.xcodeproj'
	pod 'GoogleMaps', '~> 2.0.0'
end

Information

Command or Code

cordova create "Test's single quote" com.test.singlequote "Test's single quote"
cordova platform add ios
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-googlemaps

Environment, Platform, Device

Version information

MacOS 10.15
Xcode 11.2
Node v12.5.0
Ruby Gem 3.0.6
CocoaPods 1.8.4
Cordova 9.0.0 ([email protected])
Cordova iOS platform 5.0.1

Checklist

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• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
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[mibzman]

I'm having this issue as well. @mikealo, did you discover a workaround?

[mikealo]

@mibzman unfortunatly i ended app changing app name and removing single quote.

Even if you change the podfile generated in the project>platform>ios folder manually you can then create errors during build process so i avoided doing so.

The file on ios platform that generate the podfile should be this one:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/blob/master/bin/templates/scripts/cordova/lib/Podfile.js

[mibzman]

Thanks for the response. I've also ended up changing my app name. I removed the single quote from the name property and went with a combination of this plugin and this config to change the display name back to a name with the single quote.

Hopefully, the core team can get to fixing this soon.

[RobWouters]

I have not confirmed this but I suspect the culprit is this regex:

cordova-ios/bin/templates/scripts/cordova/lib/Podfile.js

Line 81 in a3a3936

const declarationsPostRE = new RegExp('target\\s+\'[^\']+\'\\s+do');

[csi-slizhevskyv]

the same issue. UP!

[dpogue]

Just noting that even if this Podfile issue is resolved in Cordova (which it hopefully will be soon), there are other issues in Cocoapods regarding project names with single quotes: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#7546