Are the cocoslive servers down/overloaded?

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Are the cocoslive servers down/overloaded?

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Started 2 years ago by kierster
Latest reply from coepoeCOCOS

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kierster
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Posting works well for me, successfully everytime.
But requesting the scores has been failing starting sometime this afternoon, I don't think I changed any code affecting it.

WHAT I DID CHANGE IS THAT I ENABLED RANKING. Since the enabled ranking, the delete all scores also isn't working.

Anyone else having these problems?

NSLog tells me:
score request OK

receivedData does have bytes in it when I set a breakpoint there.

Then I get a parse error from that JSON thing: "Could not scan dictionary. Dictionary that does not start with '{' character."

It seems one of the dictionaries it's reading is empty from what I can tell?

Posted 2 years ago #
edisonslabs
Member

I think if you already had scores in your CocosLive database, and then you enabled ranking, then it will break.

CocosLive ranking should only be enabled on an empty database.

You need to ask and wait for riq to clear up your account.

Posted 2 years ago #
kierster
Member

Alright, that would make sense. My game isn't out yet so deleting scores won't be a problem.

Other than that tiny set back(due to my error) I'm really liking cocoslive, makes online high scores easy to use. Simple code to post and receive. I'm going to use it's features throughout the game to up the competitiveness!

Thank for the quick response.

@riq When you read this message the name of the game is Targets. Feel free to delete the scores to fix the issue. Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago #
riq
Key Master

@kierster: You can delete the scores 1 by 1. If you go to "edit scores" you will be able to delete them 1 by 1.

Posted 2 years ago #
kierster
Member

After deleting all the scores, it's still a no-go.. I'm going to delete the game and make a new one without ranking enabled I think.

Posted 2 years ago #
Aurigan
Member

I've had the exact same experience - had ~80 hi-scores that were downloading properly, deleted them, enabled ranking and now nothing downloads.

UPDATE: for the record, deleting the game and re-adding it then enabling ranking before any scores get added isn't a solution for this.

Posted 2 years ago #
riq
Key Master

what's the name of your game ? could you post the cocoslive URL ?

Posted 2 years ago #
Aurigan
Member

Hi Riq, game is called Twitch Origins (http://www.cocoslive.net/game-scores?gamename=Twitch%20Origins) only other thing i can think is that the 'Game Is Ready' flag is currently set false - maybe that makes a difference?

with ranking enabled the scores still upload and i can see them on the website, even get correct ranks back, jsut can't download any of the scores to the app. thanks

Posted 2 years ago #
squish007
Member

I seem to be able to post scores ok, but when requesting, i get this:

Error parsing scores: Error Domain=CJSONScannerErrorDomain Code=-1 UserInfo=0x9b8b590 "Could not scan dictionary. Dictionary that does not start with '{' character."

was a solution found for this? my game is called Black Hole: http://www.cocoslive.net/game-scores?gamename=Black%20Hole

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

what version are you using ?

Posted 1 year ago #
BobOman
Member

Riq
I also seem to have the same problem. (Dictionary that does not start with '{' character').
Using latest version of cocoslive 0.99... downloaded only this week.
Ranking is enabled.
I can post, and retrieve the ranking for the score, but unable to download scores.
Game name is MobiMind2 (http://www.cocoslive.net/game-scores?gamename=MobiMind2)

((NB MobiMind version 1 works great, but with ranking is not enabled.))

Any hints? I'm keen to try anything.
Thanks in advance
Bob

Posted 1 year ago #
BobOman
Member
Riq,

To get the ball rolling I took the initiative to check what data was actually being returned from the Cocoslive server.
It's an error string, which seems to give the game away... (see below)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2010-04-20 19:28:40.530 MobiMind[2361:207]
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 510, in __call__
    handler.get(*groups)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/cocoslive/1.340556897570839124/api.py", line 322, in get
    limit = self.get_limit()
  File "/base/data/home/apps/cocoslive/1.340556897570839124/api.py", line 247, in get_limit
    raise Exception("GetScores: limit can't be greater than 50 when rankings are enabled")
Exception: GetScores: limit can't be greater than 50 when rankings are enabled
```
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I didn't know about the 50 limit...

Indeed, I have now changed my 'request number of scores' to 50 (it was 100), and it all works perfectly.

Hope this helps

BobOman
Posted 1 year ago #
coepoeCOCOS
Member

Hi Riq,
I've got the same problem??
yesterday I was enable to request scores from cocoslive..
but today, I cant download scores. it says the same error
(Dictionary that does not start with '{' character').

do you know why this is happened???

thanks for helping and for any advice. :)

Posted 1 year ago #

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