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johnmarsden's avatar
johnmarsden
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9 years ago

Shared registry data in production apps

I have data being written to registry using roRegistrySection in my apps. There are multiple apps (different names, similar code) in production. It would appear that the registry is being shared in some capacity between the two. It was my understanding that production apps can't read registry written by others. It's reproducible. 

Am I wrong about the sandboxing of production apps?
If not, what could cause these registration overlaps? 
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  • squirreltown's avatar
    squirreltown
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    "johnmarsden" wrote:
     It was my understanding that production apps can't read registry written by others. It's reproducible. 

    Am I wrong about the sandboxing of production apps?

    Each dev ID has it's own registry. If you want multiple apps to read the same data, use the same dev ID to pkg. If you don't, use a different ID.
  • destruk's avatar
    destruk
    Streaming Star
    9 years ago
    Alternately you could use different key/section names for each channel using the same devID... 🙂  But then you will run out of space sooner as there is a set total limit of space to use.
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    "johnmarsden" wrote:
    Different apps with the same genkey/signature.

    The registry is unique per "developer ID" (genkey-signature), not per app. That is by design, to allow different apps under the same signer to share registry. Either use different key or different registry section per app. See https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roRegistry