[Question] Renew developer account

[esttorhe]

This is an edge case scenario but something that could happen.
If a user tries to generate provisioning profiles with an account that needs to be renewed.

Doesn't matter if the user is on single or multiple teams because this will happen after team selection (if any) and right now it will crash with a credentials error.

Don't know if this is something worth to code and instead throw another type of exception, output to the user that they need to renew or simply leave it as it is since is not that important.

[KrauseFx]

I think throwing an exception and presenting a screenshot of the screen which tells you to renew the account is a fully valid handling of this case, don't you think?

[esttorhe]

I agree that screenshot and exception is pretty valid; my comment was more in the line of if it was worth to code the renew developer account exception to be used instead of the credentials exception.

[alistra]

Well people around the world have accounts expiring and the message shows long before expiration, so it would be nice to handle it

[KrauseFx]

Oh, so you mean it should just ignore this message and continue creating the profiles, right? That makes sense.

[KrauseFx]

I'm happy to support this. Right now, my developer accounts are not expired, so I can't develop and test this functionality.
Pull requests are welcome 👍

[esttorhe]

I have one account that's expired; I could contribute with this but here's the thing:

Well people around the world have accounts expiring and the message shows long before expiration, so it would be nice to handle it

I'm not sure what this means?
I get the expiration as soon as it expires and once it expires you can do nothing with the developer center except for renew the subscription; thus this:

so you mean it should just ignore this message and continue creating the profiles… (sic)`

Couldn't be possible; unless I'm missing some kind of "interim" message before completely expiring

[KrauseFx]

When you login, what are your options? Can you post a screenshot?

[esttorhe]

This is what I get after selecting a team (obviously one with the expired account).

[KrauseFx]

So the account actually expired (it's not about to expire). You have no way to access the developer portal, right?

@alistra was talking about something else:

Well people around the world have accounts expiring and the message shows long before expiration, so it would be nice to handle it

He's talking about the about to expire message a month before the account expired, right?

[esttorhe]

Yeah that's what I meant; I got the expired message not the about to expire.
Can't contribute with that since I don't have an account that's about to expire; only this one that's already expired.

When its about to expire does it show an interim message before proceeding to the Developer Center ?

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