Access modifier of default plugins not matches on android and iOS

[no-dap]

I was trying to create some new plugins which extend the default plugin. (PushNotifications class in my case)
It was able to inherit the default plugin's class as the parent of my new plugin witch have an access modifier public in android,
but couldn't inherit in iOS because the class has a public access modifier instead of open.
Is there any reason that the default plugin's classes and its methods can't be open instead of public in swift?

[imhoffd]

Are you referring to CAPPlugin: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/blob/2.x/ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/CAPPlugin.m?

Which methods in particular are you trying to access?

[no-dap]

I'm trying to inherit the CAPPushNotificationsPlugin class: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/blob/2.x/ios/Capacitor/Capacitor/Plugins/PushNotifications.swift#L12
and its public method load() in my custom plugin.

but all plugins in this directory are not inheritable.

[no-dap]

I think it's slightly different but the public access modifier works similar outside of the module if we finalize the class in java, which is not :
https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/blob/2.x/android/capacitor/src/main/java/com/getcapacitor/plugin/PushNotifications.java#L35

[no-dap]

It was my bad. I had changed the word base plugin to default plugin

[jcesarmobile]

The Capacitor plugins are not intended to be subclassed.

For Capacitor 3 all plugins are being moved out of capacitor/ios and capacitor/android to be their own packages, most of them will have "implementation" classes that can be used from native or from other plugins, directly without instantiating the plugin class.