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Navi
Navi

Reputation: 1686

Not able to get product Identifiers from iTunes Connect in app purchase?

iam using In App purchase in my project.Currently things are working purchase are happening from sandbox.But i found one issue regarding the product identifiers.Now iam hard coding the product identifier like below. Am storing the product identifier in a plist (ProductId.plist)manually (please refer image)

#import "RageIAPHelper.h"

@implementation RageIAPHelper

+ (RageIAPHelper *)sharedInstance {
    static dispatch_once_t once;
    static RageIAPHelper * sharedInstance;
    dispatch_once(&once, ^{
        NSString* plistPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"ProductId" ofType:@"plist"];

        NSArray * contentArray = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:plistPath];
        NSLog(@"content aray:%@",contentArray);
        NSSet * productIdentifiers= [NSSet setWithArray:contentArray];
        sharedInstance = [[self alloc] initWithProductIdentifiers:productIdentifiers];
    });
    return sharedInstance;
}

@end

//CODE FROM RAY WENDERLICH IN APP PURCHASE TUTTORIAL

ProductId.PLIST

Problem is now am not able to take the product identifiers dynamically from the iTunes Store. So how can i get Product id from itunes store instead of hard coding in plist??? please help

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2183

Answers (3)

quabug
quabug

Reputation: 156

You cannot get product ids from AppStore IN APP, but you can generate plist of product ids automatically.

Here's steps:

  1. Fetch metadata.xml by using transporter:

    iTMSTransporter -m lookupMetadata \
-u [username] \
-p [password] \
-vendor_id [vendor id] \
-subitemtype InAppPurchase \
-destination [local destination]

  2. Transform metadata.xml into product_ids.plist:

    # /usr/bin/sh
# usage: [this script] [path/to/metadata.xml] > [path/to/product_ids.plist]

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
echo '<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"'
echo ' "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">'
echo '<plist version="1.0">'
echo '<array>'

sed -n 's/.*<product_id>\(.*\)<.*/    \<string\>\1\<\/string\>/p' $1

echo '</array>'
echo '</plist>'

You can integrate those shell script into your production deploy script, or you can write your own script base on this concept.

Upvotes: 0

LuisEspinoza
LuisEspinoza

Reputation: 8538

You can't get those identifiers from the AppStore!. If you really need to deliver those product identifiers dynamically, you should put a file with the list of identifiers in a visible server.

Please read the section Feature Delivery in Apple documentation. You should use the "Server Product Model".

Edit post-iOS 7:

The old link that I wrote is outdated. The current doc is more explicit

Upvotes: 2

AAV
AAV

Reputation: 3813

You can do following to get product data. 

 NSSet *productIdentifiers = [NSSet setWithObject:@"com.****.******"];
self.productsRequest = [[SKProductsRequest alloc] initWithProductIdentifiers:productIdentifiers];
self.productsRequest.delegate = self;
[self.productsRequest start];

This delegate will get call which will get product information you required 

- (void)productsRequest:(SKProductsRequest *)request didReceiveResponse:(SKProductsResponse *)response

Upvotes: 2

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