Bug: App Store Connect API no longer permits updating app prices

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dfabulich OP

Created Jan ’23

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When attempting to set the price for an app, the App Store Connect API returns a 500 error.

"An unexpected error occurred on the server side. If this issue continues, contact us at https://developer.apple.com/contact/.'"

Can anyone else reproduce this error? I've filed it as FB11924370.

Answered by dfabulich in 742636022

This turned out to be my fault. I was trying to post like this:

{
    "data": {
        "type": "apps",
        "id": XXXXXXXXX,
        "relationships": {
            "prices": {
                "data": [
                    {
                        "type": "appPrices",
                        "id": "${price1}"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "included": [
        {
            "type": "appPrices",
            "id": "${price1}",
            "attributes": {
                "startDate": null
            },
            "relationships": {
                "priceTier": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "priceTiers",
                        "id": "2"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

My mistake? The type of the priceTier object isn't priceTiers, it's appPriceTiers. 😭

I wish the API had given me a clearer error message for this, but at least Apple responded to my FB report and told me how to fix my code.

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dfabulich OP

Jan ’23

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This turned out to be my fault. I was trying to post like this:

{
    "data": {
        "type": "apps",
        "id": XXXXXXXXX,
        "relationships": {
            "prices": {
                "data": [
                    {
                        "type": "appPrices",
                        "id": "${price1}"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "included": [
        {
            "type": "appPrices",
            "id": "${price1}",
            "attributes": {
                "startDate": null
            },
            "relationships": {
                "priceTier": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "priceTiers",
                        "id": "2"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

My mistake? The type of the priceTier object isn't priceTiers, it's appPriceTiers. 😭

I wish the API had given me a clearer error message for this, but at least Apple responded to my FB report and told me how to fix my code.

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