Plugins conflict when there is no actual conflict

[AhmedAyachi]

Bug Report

Plugins conflict when there is no actual conflict:

i created two plugins A and B A: has a config-file tag that adds two activity tags to the application tag. B: an edit-config that adds attributes to the application tag.

when i add B and then A no issue when i add A and then B (i need this because i've created a cordova app starter that has the A plugin by default), it says there's a conflict that actually doesn't exist but no problem i tried to force the command the first activity tag added by the A Plugin is being removed which crushes the A plugin

What is expected to happen?

the B plugin should be added with no probs at all;
no need to force at all because there is no actual conflict.
or fix the conflict detection algo.
thank you

Version information

Cordova-android: 10.1.2 cordova-cli: 11.0.0 windows 10

Checklist

• [x] I searched for existing GitHub issues
• [x] I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• [x] I included all the necessary information above

[GitToTheHub]

Hi, I have the same Problem, but with a Cordova app and a plugin. I'm using cordova-plugin-googlemaps which add some values to AndroidManifest.xml with config-file:

    <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest/application">
      <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY" android:value="${GOOGLE_MAPS_ANDROID_API_KEY}"/>
      <!-- Google Play Services SDK -->
      <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"/>
      <!-- for Android 9 or above -->
      <uses-library android:name="org.apache.http.legacy" android:required="false"/>
    </config-file>

(Sources can be found here: https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps/blob/2cdc896cb5edfadb02aed9995ea742567dc8de02/plugin.xml#L251)

In my config.xml I want to change something on /manifest/application:

    <edit-config file="AndroidManifest.xml"
                 target="/manifest/application"
                 mode="merge">
      <application android:allowBackup="false"/>
    </edit-config>

When I build android, it says in the log:

Conflict found, edit-config changes from config.xml will overwrite plugin.xml changes

But there should not be a conflict.

Finally android:allowBackup="false" was added and the changes from cordova-plugin-googlemaps were partially added. Only the first line was not added:

<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY" android:value="${GOOGLE_MAPS_ANDROID_API_KEY}"/>

My app crashed, because there is no API-Key present for Google Maps.

[GitToTheHub]

Related Issues: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/issues/1280 https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/issues/1126