I am writing the code to interpret the data from Prefab for my store to display prices and description of items. I was surprised to not get the display name or description in the StoreItem Classes I got back from the GetStoreItemResult.
Is it expected that I need to use the Custom Data for each store item to access this information? Whats the recommended practice to handle this?
The normal way to get all the info for your catalog/store items is to get both the catalog and the store, so that you can look up the more global catalog data using the store item's ItemId values. If there's a strong need for it in our community, we could also look into having more of the catalog-defined data returned as part of the store items, as well.
Have you seen people cache off the catalog once on startup so they don't have to query over and over over the net? I suppose the con of that is if a user kept the game open for a long period, they wouldn't get changes that I might send up to the server once the game goes live.
Yes, normally a title queries the catalog once at the start, and then keeps that data locally for re-use later. One way to avoid issues with changes later is to make sure to use the catalog version system (so, all items are in one catalog, and you add a new catalog version when you update, putting the version identifier in Title Data, so that the client knows when to update).
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