Content manifest describes the state of the files inside your web project.

[
  {
    "file": "index.html",
    "hash": "5540bd44cbcb967efef932bc8381f886"
  },
  {
    "file": "css/index.css",
    "hash": "e46d9a1c456a9c913ca10f3c16d50000"
  },
  {
    "file": "img/logo.png",
    "hash": "7e34c95ac701f8cd9f793586b9df2156"
  },
  {
    "file": "js/index.js",
    "hash": "0ba83df8459288fd1fa1576465163ff5"
  }
]

Based on it plugin detects which files were removed from the project, which has changed or added. As a result:

• at the update phase it will load from the server new/updated files;
• at the installation phase it will remove deleted files.

It should be placed in your www folder as chcp.manifest file. It is packed with the application and describes project files that are installed with the app from the store.

Also, it should be placed in the root of your content_url from application config. For example, if your content_url is https://somedomain.com/www, then url to the manifest file will be https://somedomain.com/www/chcp.manifest.

To generate chcp.manifest file execute build command of plugins CLI client inside your projects root directory:

cordova-hcp build

Relative path to the file inside the www folder (where your web content is placed).

Lets say, that your web project is located at: /Workspace/Cordova/TestProject/www. Then file value should be set relative to this folder as shown in the example above.

MD5 hash of the file. Used to detect if file has been changed since last release. Also, used as a checksum to validate that loaded file is not corrupted.

Important: always update your chcp.manifest file after every change in the files of the web project. Otherwise plugin is not gonna detect any changes and won't update the app.

Important: if you updated your manifest file and uploaded files on the server, but get checksum of file .... doesn't match the checksum ... from manifest - please, check that your server is not caching files. If he does - in that case it can return old files to the app, and this will result into error.