Download Latest Certificates And Provisioning Profiles

[bassrock]

A good feature enhancement would be to download and install the latest provisioning profiles and certificates for your app as they can change constantly by adding new developers or new devices.

[KrauseFx]

Definitely! I once had this up and running for > 10 apps. Unfortunately many different problems occurred after a time, because of various reasons, like Apple changing something on the UI.

Sooner or later I'll implement it from scratch, maybe as a plugin for deliver to not pollute deliver itself.

What do you think?

[bassrock]

I think the cupertino gem works well for this. The only trouble is installing the provisioning profiles because it can't be opened from the command line via ssh. Has to be a local terminal session.

[KrauseFx]

But cupertino does not create/modify code signing profiles and push notification files, including generating the .pem file, right?

Because that's what I was thinking about:

• Create the App ID (if not yet done)
• Create an App Store signing profile for that App ID
• Enable push notifications for this app
• Create a push notification certificate, generate the .pem file for the server (offer a nice callback to easily upload it to S3 or any other server)
• Prepare the provisioning profile to be used with Shenzhen to build and sign the app.

[bassrock]

Ah that would be create as well. For now I was just thinking about if someone updates their provisioning file to just have deliver auto-download the latest profiles for that app. I.e. Developer 1 joins the team, Developer 1 creates a new dev certificate in the portal, this invalidates all old certificates, and recreates them.

Then when deliver builds it just downloads the new provisioning profiles. Not create them or anything.

[mRs-]

This would be a really nice addition to cupertiono IMHO ;)

[KrauseFx]

As far as I know, cupertino only uses a static HTML parser, which means, there is no JavaScript executed. To create new profiles, I'm pretty sure, JavaScript would be required.

[aschuch]

Played around with this idea yesterday, cupertino uses mechanize.
I think it would be possible without JavaScript, though.

The question is: Should we extend cupertino, or work on our own solution?

[KrauseFx]

I'll have to investigate if it's possible to do it without Javascript.
I'm currently working on a new screenshot solution. Maybe afterwards I'll look further into this problem.

[aschuch]

We could have a call about it later this week if you want...

[KrauseFx]

@aschuch This would be the fourth open source project of this collection then. I just released [Snapshot])(https://github.com/KrauseFx/snapshot) and will release FrameIt in the next days.

I think creating/modifying the profiles would be the next one then.

[KrauseFx]

I'll close this issue for now, since it's not in the scope of this project.

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