Native Development

[pbcoder]

Hi,

I just read the "Selling Digital Goods" recipe on the Blackberry Native SDK documentation website. I have one question. The code allocates memory for a purchase_params_t by calling malloc(). But there is no free() call anywhere in the sample code. Is the memory freed automatically by paymentservice_purchase()? Or is it the responsibility of the programmer to call free() (and the sample code just doesn't show it) ? Must purchase_params_t be allocated on the heap? Or can it go on the stack?

Thanks in advance!

[pbcoder]

One more thing... the API reference shows the paymentservice_purchase() function as:

int paymentservice_purchase(purchase_params_t params, const char *group_id)

It looks like it takes a copy of a purchase_params_t object. But the sample code shows it as taking a pointer... I'm confused...

"Selling Digital Goods" Recipe link: https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/native/documentation/recipe_payment_1876391_11.html

paymentservice_purchase() API Reference link: https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/native/reference/com.qnx.doc.bps.lib_ref/com.qnx.doc.bps.lib_ref...

[BGmot]

According to headers params is not a pointer

int paymentservice_purchase(purchase_params_t params, const char *group_id)

[pbcoder]

Thanks BGmot!

@Blackberry/RIM, can you please update the sample code in the aforementioned recipe? It is showing incorrect usage of the payment API.

Thanks in advance.

[pbcoder]

btw - what is the philosophy behind passing purchase_params_t by value instead of by pointer or by constant reference?

[gbeukeboom]

Hi pbcoder,

Feel free to log this and any other found issues directly into our external bug tracking/feature request system:

Issue Tracker

This will let you track the progress of the fix.

Cheers,

[pbcoder]

Hi gbeukeboom,

Thanks for your reply. I've logged this into the Issue Tracker. If anyone wants to track its progress, you can find the issue here:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/DOC-49