Barcodescanner phonegap, cordova.plugins is undefined - visual-studio

Question

Sounds familiar to what I found online, but I didn't get an answer to my case.
This is an Vue.js app, embedded in a cordova app, for Android.
I use Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, and I installed plugins such as Camera, or phonegap's barcode scanner (installed in my project from their github).
I got Camera plugin to work, with navigator.camera.getPicture(callback).
It seems I should use phonegap's barcode scanner through cordova variable, with cordova.plugins, that's what is stated in their documentation, but this cordova.plugins is undefined.
People say plugins have to be accessed after the event deviceready fires, but even checking that, the event is indeed emitted, and just putting console.log(cordova.plugins) in the callback function, I get "undefined".
This is what I do
document.addEventListener("deviceready", () => {
console.log("The event is right !");
console.log(cordova);
console.log(cordova.plugins);
})
Everything is right except for the plugins (3rd log). cordova.plugins should be defined because I have some plugins that do use it, but it seems I'm doing something wrong... Maybe something about config.xml or package.json ?

Answer 1

They changed something in new versions of this plagin, so it works only in new versions of Cordova as far as I undestand. So, my solution is to use old version of the plugin temporary. For instance, in this version of the plugin cordova.plugins.barcodeScanner.scan is available from a code on my side:
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner.git#6.0.5
(you can see a version information at the end of this line)
Please let me know if you found better solution.