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Romans_I_XVI
Roku Guru
9 years ago

Is it fine for a valid response from GetChannelCred() to be a requirement for launching an app?

So I am switching the way Tiles creates/fetches user accounts to use GetChannelCred() instead of requesting the user's email address. An internet connection and an "account" are both requirements to playing the game (again, this used to be handled by requestings the user's email). If the GetChannelCred() status returns something other than 0 (success) after multiple retries the player is dropped to a screen that says "Unable To Fetch User Credentials".

So, as the subject asks, is it fine for a valid response from GetChannelCred() to be a requirement for launching an app?  What are the reasons that it could fail to retrieve the data, is it only if it's a sideloaded/unpublished app or are there other things that could cause a non-success status?
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  • NB_'s avatar
    NB_
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    I don't think GetChannelCred() should be failing in normal circumstances. There is currently a bug where an app "pending" publishing does not receive back the credentials (that should be fixed soon). But that serves as great illustration to "expect the unexpected", i.e. that many calls relying on external resources may fail - and to think what to do about it in each case.

    Before you were using GetPartialUserData() to base account on email addy, yes? So what was your fallback if that fails, the same should apply here. In fact, if it were me i think i would use the email-way as a fallback for GetChannelCred(). The mere reason of avoiding publishing/review delays might make me do that (how are they going to test, if it always dead-ends at "Unable To Fetch User Credentials"?)
  • Romans_I_XVI's avatar
    Romans_I_XVI
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    Makes sense, like I said I am attempting to get the credentials multiple times before declaring it as a failure. I noticed the bug where a pending app fails as well so I created a private channel to publish and do testing on and it's working swimmingly there. As long as there's no common reason that GetChannelCred() would fail under regular circumstances I think it should be a good setup.

    As far as testing I'm not sure, maybe they could validate that the private channel and public channel are using identical packages and just do testing against the private channel '''\(*_*)/'''