Need help with Playfab

Questions
#1

Hi, I need to use a database in my game. Someone told me that I could use playfab . but his getting started defold tutorial doesnt explain to much.

Anyone knows another easier options, or know a step by step tutorial of this? thank you.

#2

How far have you gotten so far? Have you set up an account with Playfab? Have you added Playfab as a project dependency? Have you tried the dependency in any way to confirm that it is functional?

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#3

I added Playfab as a project dependency, but now I dont understand How to connect my game to playfab. and how to store data or login

edit:

I can connect to playfab using my game id. But now I dont know what can I do, or how to store data.

#4

Have you read the PlayFab documentation? Hereā€™s the documentation on their data storage solution:

https://api.playfab.com/documentation/Data

And hereā€™s the matching Lua API that you will be using:

#5

I read the documentation, but It is not enough for me, too confusing.

Im using this script of their getting started documentation, but its different than yours, what I need to use?

> local PlayFabClientApi = require("PlayFab.PlayFabClientApi")
> local IPlayFabHttps = require("PlayFab.IPlayFabHttps")
> local PlayFabHttps_Defold = require("PlayFab.PlayFabHttps_Defold")
> IPlayFabHttps.SetHttp(PlayFabHttps_Defold) -- Assign the Defold-specific IHttps wrapper
> 
> PlayFabClientApi.settings.titleId = "BE9A" -- Please change this value to your own titleId from PlayFab Game Manager
> 
> function init(self)
>     local loginRequest = {
>         -- https://api.playfab.com/documentation/Client/method/LoginWithCustomID
>         TitleId = PlayFabClientApi.settings.titleId,
>         CustomId = "GettingStartedGuide",
>         CreateAccount = true
>     }
>     PlayFabClientApi.LoginWithCustomID(loginRequest, OnLoginSuccess, OnLoginFailed)
> end
> 
> function OnLoginSuccess(result)
>     print("works")
> 
> function OnLoginFailed(error)
>     print(error)
> end

With this script, sometimes connect to my game, sometimes not. I dont know what to doā€¦

Its very confusing, and note well explained. I found this for read data. And its different that your documentationā€¦

https://api.playfab.com/documentation/Client/method/GetTitleData

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#6

Hello,
Iā€™m using Defold and Playfab, itā€™s very useful.

As you said, you can use Playfab Client API in your Defold application.
Did the login request succeed?
If it succeeded, you can check the login event at your Playfab developer dashboard.

I checked below sample code after login success:

function get_title_data()
	local request = {
		Keys = { "title_key" }
	}
	PlayFabClientApi.GetTitleData(request,
	function(result)
		pprint(result)
	end,
	function(error)
		pprint(error)
	end)
end

You can see how to set your title data in here.

I might be misunderstanding your problem, please feel free to ask me :smiley:

#7

Hello. Im very confused with the entity/classic apiā€¦ If I want to use the entity api, how can I login and how to store data or read data?.

I was all night trying to get it work I put this

local IPlayFabHttps = require("PlayFab.IPlayFabHttps")
local playfav=require("PlayFab.PlayFabAuthenticationApi")
local PlayFabHttps_Defold = require("PlayFab.PlayFabHttps_Defold")
IPlayFabHttps.SetHttp(PlayFabHttps_Defold)
 
 
function init(self)
	playfav.GetEntityToken(nil, onSuccess, onError)
end

got This API method does not allow anonymous callers, when using GetEntityToken error

then I tried with classic api

local PlayFabClientApi = require("PlayFab.PlayFabClientApi")
local IPlayFabHttps = require("PlayFab.IPlayFabHttps")
local PlayFabHttps_Defold = require("PlayFab.PlayFabHttps_Defold")
IPlayFabHttps.SetHttp(PlayFabHttps_Defold) -- Assign the Defold-specific IHttps wrapper

PlayFabClientApi.settings.titleId = "BE9A" -- Please change this value to your own titleId from PlayFab Game Manager

function init(self)
	local loginRequest = {
		-- https://api.playfab.com/documentation/Client/method/LoginWithCustomID
		TitleId = PlayFabClientApi.settings.titleId,
		CustomId = "GettingStartedGuide",
		CreateAccount = true
	}
	PlayFabClientApi.LoginWithCustomID(loginRequest, OnLoginSuccess, OnLoginFailed)
end

function OnLoginSuccess(result)
	print("works")
end

function OnLoginFailed(error)
	print("no")
end

Now I got HTTP request to ā€˜https://BE9A.playfabapi.com/Client/LoginWithCustomID?sdk=DefoldSdk_0.50.190205ā€™ failed (http result: -1 socket result: -5)

Its very frustrating :frowning:

#8

Sorry, I have never use entity API :cry:

However, I tried to create test account with your titleId a while ago, then LoginWithCustomID was success.
(If you donā€™t need it, please delete the account :bowing_man: )

Could you print the error object like this?:

function OnLoginFailed(error)
	pprint(error)
end
#9

First, than you for help me, seems nobody uses databases or playfabā€¦

DEBUG:SCRIPT:
{ --[[0000000022978F90]]
error = ā€œServiceUnavailableā€,
errorCode = 1123,
code = 0,
status = 0,
errorMessage = "Could not deserialize reseponse from server: "
}

#10

Thanks for error message.

I think the reason might be your environment such as OS or PC setting.

https://community.playfab.com/questions/24064/trouble-making-calls-to-playfab-server.html

Iā€™m using MacOS, so it works wellā€¦:sob:

#11

Too much problemsā€¦

I can log, calling the LoginWithCustomID() every time it returns errorā€¦

nowā€¦ How can I store data? I trying to use

PlayFabClientApi.UpdateUserData({Data={test=1,test2=ā€œhelloā€}}, onSuccess, onError)

But it calls onError

DEBUG:SCRIPT: noo
DEBUG:SCRIPT:
{ --[[0000000037DA6A70]]
status = ā€œOKā€,
code = 200,
data = { --[[0000000037DA6C50]]
DataVersion = 5
}
}