iTMSTransporter metadata.xml md5 utility ios - ios

Question

So I have 100 achievements to upload, rather than using the website I thought it may be faster to create a metadata.xml file and use iTMSTransporter to upload the data. Unfortunately one snag is a MD5 checksum must be computed for each image file, or Apple rejects the entire itmsp package. Requiring this almost invalidates the whole "ease" of using iTMSTransporter.
Is there a utility to parse the metadata file and update it with the checksums? Or perhaps something which generates a metadata file and does it?

Answer 1

There is a command line program that will generate the metadata.xml file and compute the files' checksums. It requires you to put your metadata in a YAML file which it turns into a metadata.xml: https://github.com/colinhumber/itunes_transporter_generator
You can use this script to update a directory containing a metadata.xml file (or files) and assets:
require "rexml/document"
require "digest"
def set_checksum(path)
xml = File.read(path)
doc = Document.new(xml)
doc.get_elements("//achievement//file_name").each do |e|
next unless e.text =~ /\S/
file = File.join($source, e.text.strip)
puts "Computing checksum for #{file}"
$md5.file(file)
checksum = $md5.hexdigest!
node = e.parent.elements["checksum"]
node = Element.new("checksum", e.parent) unless node
node.text = checksum
node.add_attribute("type", "md5")
end
puts "Saving update file"
File.write(path, doc.to_s)
end
include REXML
$source = ARGV.shift || Dir.pwd
$md5 = Digest::MD5.new
Dir["#$source/*.xml"].each do |path|
puts "Processing #{path}"
set_checksum(path)
end
Use it as follows:
> ruby script.rb
or
> ruby script.rb /path/to/metadata/directory