nicklockwood/iVersion

key "releaseNotes" has changed in iTunesServiceURL response JSON

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russgalloway commented

First, this is a fantastic project.

It looks like Apple changed a key in the iTunesServiceURL response JSON from "releaseNotes" to "description" (iVersion.m line 713).

Thanks for your hard work!

nicklockwood commented

The description key and the releaseNotes keys serve different purposes. The description key is the app description, which typically doesn't change between releases. The releaseNotes states what's new in a specific release, and that's the key that iVersion is supposed to display.

If you're not seeing any release notes whilst testing, it's probably because your app is still at version 1.0, so it doesn't have any release notes yet. If you check the example app however you will see that this is working correctly.

russgalloway commented

I figured it was something like that. I tripped checked the JSON but didn't know that value was conditional.

You're correct -- this is the first time I've looked at app store JSON data and this particular app is at version 1.0.

Thanks for the quick response, and thanks again for a sweet open source project!

  • Russ

On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Nick Lockwood wrote:

The description key and the releaseNotes keys serve different purposes. The description key is the app description, which typically doesn't change between releases. The releaseNotes states what's new in a specific release, and that's the key that iVersion is supposed to display.

If you're not seeing any release notes whilst testing, it's probably because your app is still at version 1.0, so it doesn't have any release notes yet. If you check the example app however you will see that this is working correctly.

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