cocoapods-bazel chokes on relative imports

[farcaller]

I took a basic react-native template for a ride, which has the following podfile:

require_relative '../node_modules/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods'
require_relative '../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/native_modules'

platform :ios, '10.0'

target 'ReactNativeBazel' do
  config = use_native_modules!

  use_react_native!(
    :path => config[:reactNativePath],
    # to enable hermes on iOS, change `false` to `true` and then install pods
    :hermes_enabled => false
  )

  target 'ReactNativeBazelTests' do
    inherit! :complete
    # Pods for testing
  end

  # Enables Flipper.
  #
  # Note that if you have use_frameworks! enabled, Flipper will not work and
  # you should disable the next line.
  use_flipper!()

  post_install do |installer|
    react_native_post_install(installer)
  end
end

plugin 'cocoapods-bazel', {
  rules: {
    'apple_framework' => { load: '@build_bazel_rules_ios//rules:framework.bzl', rule: 'apple_framework' }.freeze,
    'ios_application' => { load: '@build_bazel_rules_ios//rules:app.bzl', rule: 'ios_application' }.freeze,
    'ios_unit_test' => { load: '@build_bazel_rules_ios//rules:test.bzl', rule: 'ios_unit_test' }.freeze
  }.freeze,
}

The podfile resides at ./ios/Podfile from the project's WORKSPACE. When I run pod install it generates the BUILD files everywhere, including the top-level node_modules/, but the labels in those are broken, e.g.:

ERROR: /Users/farcaller/src/rn-bazel/ReactNativeBazel/node_modules/react-native/Libraries/ActionSheetIOS/BUILD.bazel:3:16: //node_modules/react-native/Libraries/ActionSheetIOS:React-RCTActionSheet_objc: invalid label '//../node_modules/react-native:React-Core' in element 0 of attribute 'deps' in 'objc_library' rule: invalid package name '../node_modules/react-native': package name component contains only '.' characters

via

load("@build_bazel_rules_ios//rules:framework.bzl", "apple_framework")

apple_framework(
    name = "React-RCTActionSheet",
    srcs = glob(["*.m"]),
    module_name = "RCTActionSheet",
    platforms = {"ios": "10.0"},
    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
    deps = ["//../node_modules/react-native:React-Core"],
)

[segiddins]

Right now, the plug-in assumes the workspace and the podfile are in the same directory, and no local pods are referenced outside of the workspace

[shzhng]

Right now, the plug-in assumes the workspace and the podfile are in the same directory, and no local pods are referenced outside of the workspace

@segiddins would this work if the workspace was actually the parent directory?

[segiddins]

im not sure!