ionic state save doesn't save the plugin version even when I explicitly mentioned it in the package.json

[janpio]

I have set the plugin version of multiple cordovaPlugins explicitly in package.json after the big update to Cordova plugins. plugins/fetch.json also contains the version numbers as it should.

But when I do ionic state save my package.json gets recreated without all these versions, so a future ionic state restore/reset won't work as intended. Is this intended that this information is ignored or is this a bug and should be fixed?

[poornerd]

I have the same problem

[tomsun]

Same issue here when using Git urls with refs.

Attempting to target tag r1.0.0 in this example, which plugins/fetch.json captures correctly, but which ionic state save omits in package.json, which means ionic state restore picks the latest version:

$ ionic plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git#r1.0.0
Fetching plugin "https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git" via git clone
Repository "https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git" checked out to git ref "r1.0.0".
Installing "cordova-plugin-console" for android
Installing "cordova-plugin-console" for ios
Saving plugin to package.json file

$ cat plugins/fetch.json
...
    "cordova-plugin-console": {
        "source": {
            "type": "git",
            "url": "https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git",
            "subdir": ".",
            "ref": "r1.0.0"
        },
        "is_top_level": true,
        "variables": {}
    }
...

$ ionic state save

$ cat package.json
...
    {
      "locator": "https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git",
      "id": "cordova-plugin-console"
    }
...

$ cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-console
Uninstalling cordova-plugin-console from android
Uninstalling cordova-plugin-console from ios
Removing "cordova-plugin-console"

$ ionic state restore
Attempting to restore your Ionic application from package.json

...

cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git 
Restore plugins is complete

Ionic state restore completed

$ cat plugins/cordova-plugin-console/package.json |grep version
  "version": "1.0.3-dev",

[tomsun]

Letting npm fetch the source locally can be a viable workaround sometimes (requires a package.json in the plugin repo):

npm install --save git+https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git#r1.0.0
ionic plugin add ./node_modules/cordova-plugin-console
ionic state save

[jgw96]

Hello all! Thanks for opening an issue with us. We are currently in the process of deprecating the ionic state commands in favor of doing it the cordova way. https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/platform_plugin_versioning_ref/index.html You can keep up with the status of this on #904 . Thanks for using Ionic!