Lack of support for file schema prevents use in cordova app about i18next-http-backend HOT 8 CLOSED

function requestWithXmlHttpRequest (options, url, payload, callback) {
  if (payload && typeof payload === 'object') {
    // if (!cache) payload._t = Date.now()
    // URL encoded form payload must be in querystring format
    payload = addQueryString('', payload).slice(1)
  }

  try {
    let x
    x = new XMLHttpRequest();
    x.open('GET', url, 1)
    if (!options.crossDomain) {
      x.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest')
    }
    x.withCredentials = !!options.withCredentials
    if (payload) {
      x.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
    }
    if (x.overrideMimeType) {
      x.overrideMimeType('application/json')
    }
    let h = options.customHeaders
    h = typeof h === 'function' ? h() : h
    if (h) {
      for (var i in h) {
        x.setRequestHeader(i, h[i])
      }
    }
    x.onreadystatechange = () => {
      x.readyState > 3 && callback(x.status >= 400 ? x.statusText : null, { status: x.status || 200, data: x.responseText }) // in android webview loading a file is status status 0
    }
    x.send(payload)
  } catch (e) {
    console && console.log(e)
  }
}


i18next
.use(window.i18nextHttpBackend)
.init({
  backend: {
    loadPath: 'locale/{{lng}}.json',
    request: requestWithXmlHttpRequest
  },
  load: 'currentOnly',
  ns: ['translation'],
  defaultNS: 'translation',
  lng: 'en-US',
  fallbackLng: 'en-US',
  languages: [{{{LANGUAGES}}}, 'dev']  // replaced by our build task with currently available languages
})
.then((t) => {
    var packages = {{{PACKAGES}}};  // This loads the application, but we don't want to load that without first initializing the languages or we end up caching some of the wrong/undefined strings
    console.log('loading packages');

    packages.forEach(function(pkg, index) {
      var scriptTag = document.createElement('script');
      scriptTag.async = false;
      scriptTag.setAttribute('src', pkg);
      document.head.appendChild(scriptTag);
    });

  });