Webstore payments: Content seems to be contradictory or unclear
Reported by
david.wi...@songbird-services.ch,
May 18 2016
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Issue description
Chrome Version : 50.0.2661.102
OS Version: OS X 10.11.4
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5:
Firefox 4.x:
IE 7/8/9:
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/check_for_payment
2. read the following
"Generally, you use the Licensing API in hosted apps. Although you can use the API in packaged apps and extensions, it's more difficult for them to use the license server securely."
3. then read
"Note: This page applies only if you use Chrome Web Store Payments. Chrome Web Store payment methods are not available for hosted apps. For information on other options, see Charging for your app in the Overview."
What are these paragraphs trying to tell me?
Should my extension use licensing or not?
UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36
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May 18 2016
I think this is the sentence that makes the doc confusing: "Generally, you use the Licensing API in hosted apps. Although you can use the API in packaged apps and extensions, it's more difficult for them to use the license server securely." Chrome Web Store Payments no longer supports hosted apps, so I think we should just remove that sentence. +phu, do you agree?
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May 18 2016
@David, to answer your question -- If your extension uses Chrome Web Store Payments, then yes you can use the licensing API to check for payment.
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May 19 2016
@jawag. Thanks, that helps.
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May 19 2016
Marking assigned to phu@.
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May 24 2016
We discussed offline and agreed that we'll remove the references to hosted apps in the doc, since Chrome Web Store Payments no longer supports hosted apps.
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Nov 28 2016
We've deprecated the obsolete documentation, so I'm closing this bug. |
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Comment 1 by rpop@chromium.org
, May 18 2016Summary: Webstore payments: Content seems to be contradictory or unclear (was: Content seems to be contradictory or unclear)