Shephertz Community - Recent questions and answers in Corona

Answered: Avatar Management Service for Corona

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:19:33 +0000

Hello, as far as I know, Avatar Management Service is available for Corona

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Use Twitter to log in, it shows success, but there is no information.

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 14:48:43 +0000

Hello everyone, I recently transferred from Gamesparks.

I am trying to log in using Twitter.

Although the login is successful, I cannot see any information in the User interface. Where can I get it?

Thanks.

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App42 Storage Service call not working from Button Click event.But working directly

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:38:55 +0000

When I call my Storage service be it insertJSONDocument or findDocumentById from my lua file which loads and call the DBService calls and it returns the results.

But same function when I call from a button click event in the same lua file the below error is displayed.

AppWarp\WarpUtilities.lua:224: attempt to concatenate local 'user' (a nil value)

stack traceback:

AppWarp\WarpUtilities.lua:224: in function 'calculateSignature'

App42-Lua-API\Util.lua:134: in function 'sign'

App42-Lua-API\StorageService.lua:169: in function 'findDocumentById'

DbConnect.lua:48: in function 'getData'

View1.lua:60: in function '_onEvent'

?: in function '?'

This is basic step .I do not know why it should not work. My Appwrap and Appwrap42 are having different api key and secret key.

Is it because the storage calls should be only called from main thread of the Scene lua file and cannot be called from inside of any other event or callback function

Answered: Email Service stop working

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 06:39:53 +0000

Hi Germanfv,

Could you please change your port from 465 to 587 and send your mail again. if you still face any issue then let us know it will help us to provide better support to you.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Explanation of a session for user?

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:31:35 +0000

Hello Mario,

Apologies for getting late back to you.

On higher notes, you are correct it helps you to store user-specific attribute along with his/her session on the server. Apart from this its also have admin API to manage the user session through which you can expire and generate new session for a user.

In some of the cases, it helps you to check the user session is valid or not. e.g: You have a case where you want to run your code only for verified users with their valid identity. In such case, you can use admin API to check the session of the particular user and take certain action.

Let me know if above information helps or if you need any other help from our side. We will be happy to help you!

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Error while building to Android using Corona SDK

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:13:35 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the error details. To resolve the above-mentioned issue, please remove the installation.lua file from App42-Lua-API folder. It will work.

In case you still face any issue, please feel free to let me know. I will be happy to help you!

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Get file by name

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 04:51:29 +0000

Hi,

Greetings!

Yes, you are correct. You need to use Lua/Corona function to download the file from URL. Let me know if you need any other help from our side.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Please Explain How Paging Works

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:56:10 +0000

Hello Scott,

Yes you are right, you have to call find all document by paging method until you get the last 100 records. Please find below code snippet for find documents by paging:

local dbName = "<Your_DataBase_Name>"

local collectionName = "<Your_Collection_Name>"

local max = 5

local offset = 0

local App42CallBack = {}

App42API:initialize("API_KEY","SECRET_KEY")

local storageService = App42API:buildStorageService()

storageService:findAllDocumentsByPaging(dbName, collectionName,max,offset,App42CallBack)

function App42CallBack:onSuccess(object)

print("dbName is "..object:getDbName())

for i=1,table.getn(object:getJsonDocList()) do

print("DocId is "..object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getDocId())

print("CreatedAt is "..object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getCreatedAt())

end

function App42CallBack:onException(exception)

print("Message is : "..exception:getMessage())

print("App Error code is : "..exception:getAppErrorCode())

print("Http Error code is "..exception:getHttpErrorCode())

print("Detail is : "..exception:getDetails())

end

regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Get Scores by User with More than 100 Scores

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:33:03 +0000

I apologize...I was looking at output from a different method. It does appear that "getScoresByUser" returns all of the scores without the 100 record limitation. I have one user with over 400 scores that returned successfully. Thanks

Answered: Corona query builder runtime error

Sun, 11 Jun 2017 23:44:13 +0000

Got it working as:

		local y = JSON:decode(object:getStrResponse())

		print(y.app42.response.users.user.jsonDoc[1])

All user additional data is under y.app42.response.users.user.jsonDoc[1]

For example: y.app42.response.users.user.jsonDoc[1].level

Answered: Register Device for Push Notifications Using Corona SDK

Thu, 18 May 2017 13:42:54 +0000

Hi Gsglawson,

Please follow this(http://blogs.shephertz.com/2014/01/24/making-turn-based-game-using-app42-corona-sdk/ ) link to understand that how device register to GCM for push notification and get the token which you will send to App42.

Let us know if you find any difficulty in integrating or needing any help from our side.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: I Can't use appwarp and app42 Cloud

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:23:33 +0000

In the file "App42-Lua-API/Util.lua" change the function "calculateSignature" to "calculateSignature2" at line 144 where it is declared and at line 134 where it is called.

The issue is that both App42 and AppWarp declared these as global functions and they interfere with each other.

Vishnu, let the developers fix this problem as it inhibits developers from easily buliding realtime multiplayer games in conjunction with the cloud services in Corona SDK.

Answered: Escape Backslashes (\) in Storage Service

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:44:49 +0000

Hi Gsglawon,

Apologies for getting late back to you.

Saving backslashes (\) directly through the JSON will not be possible, as application platform by default adds forward slashes ("\/"), double slash ("\\") by removing the backslash. It is recommended to have encoding before adding any value to JSON and decoding back after getting the JSON from the database.

Please use base64 encoding and let me know if you still face any issue while saving/fetching the value from the database.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Last Login Date/Time

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:00:36 +0000

Hi GFG,

Greetings from ShepHertz!!!!!

You can achieve the same by storing data against User in storage using App42 Storgae API.

You can insert desired user details like last login time against user once login is succeeded.
You can see all the data related to your users on AppHQ dashboard.

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks

Vishnu Garg

Answered: Enabling Custom Sound with Push Notifications using Corona SDK

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:35:40 +0000

Hi Scott,

At the time of sending the message, you can send JSON string in place of message and parse it accordingly on the client side. Please have a look at this link for the code snippet of sendPushMessageToUser and let me know if you need any help from my side.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: It's way past 15 Oct and still no news about the new SDK for corona?

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:47:14 +0000

Hi Tian,

Apologies for the delay in notifications.

The release has been postponed due to some other high priorities. I have raised the priority level for this SDK and will try to update you by today EOD or by tomorrow morning.

Regards,

Rajeev

Answered: Performance Degradation with App42

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:55:25 +0000

Hi Scott,

Apologies for late reply.

I have replied to your query over support. Please share your available timings and Skype details over support so that we can connect tomorrow(12 Oct) for the quick resolution of this query.

Regards,

Rajeev Ranjan

Answered: setting data with corona, continued

Mon, 10 Oct 2016 05:30:17 +0000

Hi Tc,

Is it possible that you can share your complete code which replicate this issue with us at support@shephertz.com? And steps to reproduce the error,it will help us to provide better support to you.

regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Storing json data

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:28:20 +0000

Hi TC,

Thanks for sharing the code. Can you check the document in AppHQ Management Console that which user have write access to update that document? It seems like the document you are trying to update have Public Read access but not have write access. So please check if this is the case, then you have to provide the permission first to Tom then he will be able to update that document.

Please check and let me know if it helps.

Regards,

Rajeev

Answered: Setting user data via Corona

Thu, 06 Oct 2016 06:11:23 +0000

Hi Tc,

Yes, you are right both are same.

In ACL enabled app, it is required to pass sessionId of the user who is making a call. Session Id is used on the server to determine the user and checking for authorization. Session Id can be fetched once the user is authenticated and it used in the method call, to update the user document,

So in order to resolve the above issue, you need to set the session id in Storage Service instance. Please find the below code snippet and let me know if it helps:

storageService:setSessionId("Session Id of user"); // You can retrieve, session id easily at the time of user authentication

P.S Please have a look at this for more details about securing the app and feel free to let us know if you need any help from our side.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Update User Profile for Corona SDK

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:39:07 +0000

Hi Scott,

Greetings!

Yes, we support this function in Corona SDK. Please find the below code for the same and let me know if you need any other help from our side:

local userName = "Nick"

local pwd = "********"

local emailId = "nick@shephertz.co.in"

local callBack = {}

App42API:initialize("API_KEY","SECRET_KEY")

local userService = App42API:buildUserService()

local Profile = require("App42-Lua-API.Profile")

local profileObj = Profile:new()

profileObj:setFirstName("Samita")

profileObj:setSex(UserGender.FEMALE)

profileObj:setState("Haryana")

profileObj:setPincode("122001")

profileObj:setCity("Gurgaon")

profileObj:setLastName("Samita")

userService:createUserWithProfile(userName,password,emailId, profileObj,callBack)

function callBack:onSuccess(object)

print("User Profile : "..JSON:encode(object:getProfile()))

print("User Profile First Name : "..object:getProfile():getFirstName())

print("User Profile Sex is : "..object:getProfile():getSex())

end

function callBack:onException(object)

print("Message is "..object:getDetails());

end

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Create user with role

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:06:56 +0000

Hi Tian,

In order to get the role value, we have to share updated SDK and that request we have already generated. We will update you before 15th Oct with updated SDK. Please let us know if any other information required from our end.

We are happy to assist you!

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Key value pair for push notification

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:56:22 +0000

Hi Tian,

You can simply encode the JSON and see the list of keys which are receiving in the Push payload. Once you print the JSON string,you can parse it accordingly on the client side.

To encode the JSON string, simply use the below code and let us know if you need any other help from our side.

local JSON = require("App42-Lua-API.JSON")

print(JSON:encode(event))

Also, I would request you to put a comment on same thread instead of creating a new question. It will help us to serve better.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Any update on the code snippet?

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:57:13 +0000

Hi Tian,

Apologies for the delay in response. Please find code snippet below which will help you to iterate your keys from notification event and let us know if you need any other help from our side:

local androidBundle = event.androidGcmBundle;

for key, value in sortKeyByValue(androidBundle) do

print(key..value)

end

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Determining whether an app has ACL enabled?

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:52:12 +0000

Hi,

Please check your app credentials inside settings section of App Manager. If you have Admin key along with APIKey and Secret Key, it means your app is ACL enabled otherwise not. Let me know if you need any other help from our side.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: How to create user with role

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:08:21 +0000

Hi Tian,

You can easily create the user with the role by clicking on App42 Link under Users section of AppHQ Management Console. Once you open the above link, please click on Create User button and enter the required fields like username, email, role and password to create the user.

P.S As of now creating a user with the role in Corona is no available. We have forwarded the request to our team, once it will available in the SDK will let you know.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: How can i get a users rank from leaderboard when using Corona SDK?

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:18:08 +0000

Hi Scott,

Yes, it is available in Corona SDK. You can get the User rank using our API getUserRanking.

Let me know if you have any other queries.

Regards,

Rajeev

Answered: Push Notification custom data not working with APP42

Fri, 19 Aug 2016 03:06:35 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

I am forwarding this to my development team to get you code snippet for the same. I will update you with the code snippet as soon as possible.

Regards,

Rajeev

Answered: Geo location push message

Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:38:11 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

Following key-value pairs will be delivered to the client side if you send geo-based push from AppHQ:

1.Multi Geo Vanila push payload:

{

"app42_geoBase" = coordinateBase;

"app42_mapLocation" = "[{\"radius\":0.5,\"lng\":-87.629,\"lat\":41.878},{\"radius\":0.5,\"lng\":77.02664,\"lat\":28.459497}]";

"app42_message" = "Location based push";

aps = {

"content-available" = 1;

};

}

2.Single Geo Vanila push payload:

{

"app42_distance" = "0.5";

"app42_geoBase" = coordinateBase;

"app42_lat" = "41.878";

"app42_lng" = "-87.629";

"app42_message" = "Single location push";

aps = {

"content-available" = 1;

};

}

Please let me know if you have any other queries.

Regards,

Rajeev Ranjan

Answered: what is the key value pair that APP42 use for Geo Push

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:57:12 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

Greetings!!!!

Its depends on the type of message you are sending from AppHQ dashboard so it can be different, I suggest to write the parsing logic based on the message format coming from App42 Dashboard. It can also very according to different OS.

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks

Vishnu garg

Answered: How to get the info log for geo push (examples)

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:14:21 +0000

Hi TianChoh,

Greetings!!!

Currently we don't have any sample source code for this. But you can parse the Notification data based on the keys provided by below:

Notification Data

A notification event returns a table of information which you can use to manage the specific notification. This table includes the following:

event.alert — string value consisting of the message to display.
event.applicationState — string value of either "active" or "inactive".
event.badge — number representing the badge count (iOS only).
event.custom — if this table exists, there may be data from the push service that helps your app react to the data. This is known as deep linking.
event.name — string value of "notification".
event.sound — string value representing a sound file, i.e. "alarm.caf".
event.type — string value of "local" for local notifications or "remote" for push notifications.

Let me knwo if it helps.

Thanks

Vishnu Garg

Answered: How to trace the geo push

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:24:37 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

You can trace them in your NotificationListener, where you are receiving push messages from AppHQ dashboard. For more information you can refer the Corona Push Notification Tutorial.

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks

Vishnu Garg

Answered: Geo push for android and ios

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:40:52 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

Greetings!!!!!!!!!!

Currently we havn't have any specific sample code regarding this. But If you trace the incoming message I can help you in parsing the messae format.

Thanks

Vishnu Garg

Answered: How to do the tracking for geo push?

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 05:34:05 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

Greetings!!!!!!

In case of Geo Push message format is different in both iOS and Android devices. In this message format is JSON. You can attach logs in your application and find the message and display whole message in Notification.

Let me know on which device you are testing it. Once you find the format you can easily display it on Notification Bar. For Geo handling you need to write own logic for location fetching and validation on device side so that you can decide whether Push Notification need to be shown or not.

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks

Vishnu Garg

Answered: Geo based push notifications

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:12:04 +0000

HI Tianchoh,

Greetings!!!!!!

In case of Geo Based Push Notification all validation code for location is written on device side. Server send the silent push message to device. So in your case you need to write logic to validate the location of the user with the location coming in the message as If its lie in that you need to show that message.

You can attach logs in your application to track the incoming message, and can show accordingly after parsing the message.

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks

Vishnu Garg

Answered: Error while trying to run Corona SDK Sample

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 05:52:41 +0000

Hi Miguel,

It seems like the storyboard.lua file is unavailable in latest version of corona and the sample is made using storyboard, hence it is unable to find the same.

Please download storyboard.lua file and put it in the project folder and try.

Let me know if the problem continues.

Regards,

Rajeev

Answered: what is "Key name which you value you want to iterate" supposed to be?

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:38:08 +0000

Hi Tianchoh,

The only mistake which i found after looking into your code is value iteration which i changed, please use the below code snippet and let me know if it helps:

for i=1,table.getn(object:getJsonDocList()) do

print("DocId is "..object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getDocId())

local userMobile = object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getJsonDoc();

print("User Mobile s "..userMobile["HP"])

end

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Pay to Play Support

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:36:42 +0000

Hi Gsglawson,

We offer backend services where you can write the logic of managing the above feature like who will receive the payment, their payment history and profile details. However, the real cash management logic is not available. Lots of developers use custom code and Storage service to manage the purchases. please have a look at this link to get started with App42 SDK and let us know if you need any help from our side.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Is session data deleted when a user is deleted?

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:59:06 +0000

Hi Brian,

Could you please share the deatils about the data which is not getting deleted? Are saving these data for user, if yes, could you please provide the code snippet used for the same.

It will help us to provide better support to you.

Regards,

Rajeev

Answered: Pausing a timer

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 05:30:35 +0000

Hi Brian,

Could you please provide some more information that which timer you want to pause? It will help us to provide better support from our side.

Thanks.

Answered: Getting a specific key value using Corona SDK

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:17:18 +0000

Hi Brian,

You can find code snippet from here to get the document from the collection. However for retrieving a specific value from JSON object (JSON document) you can simply use below code snippet and let me know if it helps :

for i=1,table.getn(object:getJsonDocList()) do

print("DocId is "..object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getDocId())

local jsonDocument = object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getJsonDoc();

print("JSON Document is "..jsonDocument["Key name which you value you want to iterate"])

end

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

print("CreatedAt is "..object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getCreatedAt())

Answered: How do you upload a file onto the cloud for a specific user with corona sdk?

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:15:39 +0000

Hi Toh,

We have forwarded this query to our production team and they are looking into it. We will get back to you on this ASAP.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Push Notifications not working on IOS with Corona SDK

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 09:19:01 +0000

Hi Scott,

Could you please share your API_Key on support@shephertz.com?

It will help us to debug the problem.

Thanks.

Answered: How to access the data stored in JSON on the database?

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:49:39 +0000

Hi,

Once you have the success response, you can find your JSON doc using the below code snippet from which you can your desired keys:

function App42CallBack:onSuccess(object)

for i=1, table.getn(object:getJsonDocList()) do

local doc = object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getDocId()

local jsonDoc = object:getJsonDocList()[i]:getJsonDoc()

end

Let me know if it helps.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Cannot load documents into a certain collection

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:16:15 +0000

Hi,

Let us know if you still facing this issue, it will help us to provide better support to you.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Delete Collections

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:08:40 +0000

Hi GS,

Deleting collection through API is not available as of now, I can record your request in our future request. If we receive more request on this, will take it to consideration and add into our future release. However, you can work with deleting the document for user. In case this is a road blocker for you, then let me know your complete use case. I will be happy to help you!!

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Corona example app - fails with runtime error - its hard enough to learn new api, while having to debug code

Mon, 07 Mar 2016 06:42:05 +0000

Hi Ebrindle,

Thanks for sharing the details with us. It seems like emailTextField doesn't contain any value that's why you are having the issue. Could you please pass direct value to the method and let me know if you are able to resolve this issue.

Regards.

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: how to create my table use JSON APP42 UI? collection means table?

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:46:27 +0000

Hi Young,

Yes, you are right collection is same as table in No-SQl Database. Please find below steps that how you can easily create table using App42 UI:

Login to AppHQ Management Console
Select App42 Cloud API product from the dropdown
Click on Storage -> JSON link from the left menu
Click on Add Db, if you have not added yet
Click on Save JSON and enter the required field and submit

Let me know if it helps.

Regards,

Himanshu Sharma

Answered: Push notifications are slow when sent from mobile app

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:27:01 +0000

Hi,

Could you please let me know in which version of Corona you are working on? It will help us to provide better support to you. Also, if possible then please share internal logs of the method. To print the internal logs, put the below line of code just after the key initialization:

local App42Log = require("App42-Lua-API.App42Log")

App42Log:setDebug(true)

regards.

Himanshu Sharma