Incomplete plugin restoration

I'm having a problem with plugin restoration since cordova-android 7.0.0, when plugins use a mix of config-file and edit-config on the same file (e.g. AndroidManifest.xml) and only edit-config uses the real path to the file. I've tried both cordova-cli 6.5.0 and 7.1.0 with the same result.

1) Create a new corodva project and enter top-level direcotyr
2) Create subfolder to contain a local plugin: mkdir -p localplugins/testplugin1
3) Create the following files to define the local plugin:

• plugin.xml (adds an attribute to <application> and a category to <intent-filter>)

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <plugin xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0" id="com.example.testplugin1" version="1.0.0">
      <name>Test Plugin 1</name>
      <platform name="android">
          <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest/application/activity/intent-filter">
              <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" />
          </config-file>
          <edit-config file="app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml" target="/manifest/application" mode="merge">
              <application android:largeHeap="true" />
          </edit-config>
      </platform>
  </plugin>
  

• package.json

  {
          "name": "com.example.testplugin1",
          "version": "1.0.0"
  }
  

  4) Add android platform: cordova platform add android@7.0.0 --save
  5) Add local plugin: cordova plugin add localplugins/testplugin1 --save

At this point, if you check platforms/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml, it'll contain the 2 changes defined in the plugin.

Now attempt to use platform/plugin restoration with thw following:

cordova platform rm android
cordova prepare android

If you check again AndroidManifest.xml, it will only contain one of the changes defined in the plugin (the attribute to <application>). The other change is missing.

If you use the real path to AndroidManifest.xml for the definition of <config-file>, then the problem does not occur. BUT, the problem can also occur when changes to AndroidManifest.xml are coming from multiple plugins, including the standard cordova plugin, most of which do not use the real path to AndroidManifest.xml yet.

The problem can affect other files too. For instance I experienced incomplete restoration of plugins trying to register themselves in res/xml/config.xml. Only one plugin, out of 7, was using the real path app/src/main/res/xml/config.xml and I ended up with only one plugin defined in res/xml/config.xml, causing the application to fail to start.