How to use ListMultiplayerServers in a game client

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scottadams asked Apr 20, '20

How to use ListMultiplayerServers in a game client

I am trying to get a list of all current multiplayer servers in a region from a game client.

I can get the title data and access all the server and client functions fine.

But when in the client I use ListMultiplareServers it return:

Only entities of the following types may call this API: title

Currently the game client is logging in with a dummy playerid.

I am using the UnitySDK and its current along with the GSDK and Playfab API

Thanks for any ideas on this.

game manager

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scottadams commented · Apr 19, 2020 at 05:28 PM

I may have found my answer

https://community.playfab.com/questions/19542/server-get-character-entity.html

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scottadams commented · Apr 19, 2020 at 06:59 PM

Ok in case anyone else has this issue this is how I solved it

    /// <summary>
    /// the title entity token
    /// </summary>    
    PlayFab.AuthenticationModels.GetEntityTokenResponse TitleEntityToken;



    void GetTitleEntitytoken()
    {
        var request = new  PlayFab.AuthenticationModels.GetEntityTokenRequest();


        TitleEntityToken = null;


          PlayFabAuthenticationAPI.GetEntityToken(
                request,
                result =>
                {
                   TitleEntityToken = result;


                    Debug.Log($"{Time.fixedTime} GetEntityToken {TitleEntityToken}");
                },
                error =>
                {
                    string theError = error.GenerateErrorReport();
                    Debug.Log($"{Time.fixedTime} Got error GetEntityToken {theError} ");
                }
        );
  
    }

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Answer 1 · 2020-04-21T05:44:45Z

Citrus Yan answered Apr 21, '20

Looks like you are trying to use & access Title_Entity_Token from the client-side, however, this is highly unrecommended since it will potentially expose SecretKey & Title_Entity_Token to the players. Players can use that to abuse your title by modifying some data in its own interest. Therefore, I would recommend that you call ListMultiplayerServers and return the result back to the client from the server-side such as CloudScript: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/playfab/features/automation/cloudscript/writing-custom-cloudscript

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scottadams commented · Apr 21, 2020 at 09:36 PM

Thanks @Citrus Yan! I will look into that.

I appreciate the comment and the link.

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Answer 2 · 2021-06-03T20:55:17Z

scottadams answered Jun 3, '21

There is now a client-side API that allows client tokens ListMultiplareServersV2

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Yann LE BLEVEC commented · Jun 17, 2021 at 10:17 AM

hi @scottadams, I cannot find the V2 into the documentation, could you add the link to it please?

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scottadams Yann LE BLEVEC commented · Oct 25, 2021 at 06:24 PM

Seems it has been removed. It was undocumented. ListMultiPlayerServersV2

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