Mobile Platform as a Service:Switch iOS environment

During application development, you may need to change the environment configuration or work with multiple environments simultaneously. mPaaS provides tools that allow you to easily switch environments. You can do this in two ways:

• Static environment switching

• Dynamic environment switching

Static environment switching

Static environment switching involves manually replacing the default meta.config file in your project. You must then repackage the application to access the new environment.

1. Use the mPaaS plugin to replace the meta.config file in the current project.

2. Delete and reinstall the application for the new environment configuration to take effect.

Dynamic environment switching

Dynamic environment switching lets you change the application's environment configuration without repackaging the client. You can do this by changing the environment options in your phone's Settings.

Because mPaaS uses a security signature verification mechanism, updating the environment configuration also modifies the Security Guard signature verification image, yw_1222.jpg. This results in two limitations for dynamic environment switching:

• Dynamic environment switching is intended only for the development phase. Before you publish the application, you must delete the corresponding configurations.

• In the mPaaS console, you must turn off the signature verification switch for network requests. Otherwise, requests will fail because the signature verification image information is incorrect.

Configure environment information

1. To enable dynamic environment switching, override the enableSettingService method in the MPaaSInterface category and set the return value to YES.

    @implementation MPaaSInterface (Portal)
   
    - (BOOL)enableSettingService
    {
        return YES;
    }
   
    @end

2. Download the Settings.bundle.zip environment configuration file and add it to your project.

3. Review the environment configuration information in Settings.bundle:

   • By default, Settings.bundle provides four environments that correspond to four configuration files: Debug, Sit, Release, and Custom.

   • Debug, Sit, and Release are three preset environments. From the mPaaS console, download the configuration files for the environments you want to configure. Rename the files to Debug, Sit, or Release, and use them to replace the sample files in the original Settings.bundle.

     

   • Use the Custom environment to configure the application's environment configuration directly in your phone's Settings without repackaging the client. Go to Settings > your application > Settings > Customizing and enter the values from the downloaded configuration file.

   • To preset more environments in addition to the default Debug, Sit, Release, and Custom environments, add items to Settings.bundle/Service.plist and add the corresponding configuration files. The format is as follows:

     

Switch environments dynamically

• After you add the `Settings.bundle` environment configuration file, its configuration information overwrites the default meta.config file in the project. The environment selected in Settings.bundle takes precedence. To view the currently selected environment, go to Settings > Current Application > Settings > Category. The Sit environment is selected by default.

• To switch to another environment, navigate to Phone Settings > Current Application > Settings > Category and select the desired environment. The change takes effect after a process restart.