requestLocationAuthorization error on iOS7 about cordova-diagnostic-plugin

[dpa99c]

Runtime location authorization was introduced in iOS 8 (see here) hence the error on iOS 7.

[s2young]

Ah, OK. I must have missed this in the docs? How do I go about getting location on iOS7? Just ask via getCurrentPosition?

[dpa99c]

I will add a fix to the plugin for this. In the meantime, you could just use the device plugin to detect an omit the call on iOS 7 and below:

if(device.platform == "iOS" && parseInt(device.version) > 7){
    cordova.plugins.diagnostic.requestLocationAuthorization();
}

[s2young]

Yes, indeed. The fix was to simply go straight to the geolocation plugin's getCurrentPosition method. Thanks for your help.

[dpa99c]

Glad you found a workaround. Still, the plugin should not raise an error because of this, so I have added a patch to ensure requestLocationAuthorization is not called on iOS 7 or below, in commit f09c050. Since I'm using the latest Xcode 7, I don't have an iOS 7 simulator available and I don't have a device running iOS 7 so I'm unable to test it, so would appreciate if you could test this patch on iOS 7 by installing the plugin directly from this repo:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-diagnostic-plugin

It should no longer cause an error if requestLocationAuthorization is called on iOS 7, however it will still have no effect since requesting authorization is not needed on iOS 7.