cordova run ios -target iPhone-XR leads to Building for "iPhone X" Simulator, later not able to start XR simulator to run the app

[janpio]

Bug Report

This is a variant of #603, where the underlying problem causes failure.

Problem

What is expected to happen?

cordova run --emulator should be able to use the simulators returned from cordova run --list to build and start the app.

What does actually happen?

This is probably related to #601, which affects Xcode 9.x Travis CI images:
For the Xcode 10.1 image the failure is stranger:

https://travis-ci.org/apache/cordova-paramedic/jobs/519983899

This time iPhone-XR, 12.0 is selected as the simulator, but the build is done for iPhone X:

$ cordova run ios --no-telemetry --no-update-notifier --target iPhone-XR --emulator
Building for "iPhone X" Simulator (com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-X, iPhone-X)
Building project: /private/var/folders/nz/vv4_9tw56nv9k3tkvyszvwg80000gn/T/tmp-2606aUPAbUbzTgkB/platforms/ios/HelloCordova.xcworkspace
	Configuration: Debug
	Platform: emulator
	Target: iPhone X

The internal logic of run seems to have picked something different than specified in --target.

The real problem, is that later it tries to launch that app on a iPhone XR simulator, which just fails (with no error message being output, currently working on a PR to fix that at least). When you try an equal command locally, you get this error from ios-sim: No available runtimes could be found for "iphone xʀ".

Information

Version information

CLI 9, cordova-ios 5.0.0

Checklist

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

[dpogue]

I suspect it's failing to find an iPhone-XR simulator and falling back to the default simulator target.

As part of #596 I've added a warning message to print out when it fails to find the requested simulator and falls back to the default one.

[janpio]

That's a great idea, to differentiate between those two cases and should definitely help here.

[erisu]

Will close out this ticket as no longer an issue.

Using the latest cordova-ios release (7.0.1), running the above command cordova run ios --target=iPhone-XR shows that the target is iPhone Xʀ.

It successfully builds and deploys app to the iPhone Xʀ simulator.