I am getting error while requesting products from App Store for IAP

Question

In IOS6, I was successfully making in-app purchases in my app.

I downloaded IOS/ and Xcode 5 Beta and tried to open the same project.

My code to get products from app store is:

- (void)requestProductsWithIdentifiers:(NSSet*)identifiers
{
        @synchronized(self)
    {
            DebugLog(@"requesting products with identifiers: %@", identifiers);

            self.productsRequest = [[SKProductsRequest alloc] initWithProductIdentifiers:identifiers] ;
            self.productsRequest.delegate = self;
            [self.productsRequest start];
    }
}

But it returns an error:

[IAPHelper request:didFailWithError:](114): request did fail with error: <SKProductsRequest: 0xb846a10> / Error Domain=SSErrorDomain Code=2 "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" UserInfo=0xb846b10 {NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot connect to iTunes Store}

Where can be the problem?

Answer 1

Apple blocked testing in-app purchases...

Here is the link to the release notes https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/Chapters/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001051-CH1-SW578

See: iOS Simulator section

StoreKit (In-App purchases) will not work in the Simulator. 13962338

Very sad...

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem recently after installing xcode 5 and the iOS 7 simulator.

Previously SKProductRequests worked in the simulator, but now they fail with error code 2. (They still work on devices).

I'm not sure what is causing this, but my solution was to download the iOS 6.1 simulator. xcode Preferences->Downloads->Components and select the iOS 6.1 simulator.

After that I had to select the iOS 6.1 simulator as my device target, delete the app from the simulator, then compile and run it again. Now the SKProductRequests returned the product info as expected.

I tried switching back to the iOS 7 simulator but SKProductRequests started failing again.

Answer 3

Update: Testing in-app purchases in the simulator appears to work in the Xcode 6 beta