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Hi there,

Im new to using the Infinite Flight API and im trying to recieve flights picturing on my map however every time I try an new code to simplify the information I still get the error: :cross_mark: Failed to decode flights: The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.

Anyone else knows what to do? (I use Xcode)

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Hi …

I think more information would be needed for someone in the IFC to be able to help. Some questions I immediately have would be:

  • are you using the Live API or Connect API?
  • what endpoint are you calling? Can you provide sample code for how you are calling the API?
  • can you provide the code which XCode says is causing the error and the exact error details?
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Sure, It is an great question tho on which I use the connect or the Live API because I do not rlly know that (im quite knew to coding).

But I can share an screenshot to show the error message I got

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Just a quick note – that image has your API key which you really shouldn’t be sharing publicly as others could then use it. I suggest you remove the key from the image and edit this post.

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edited.. Thanks for that :smiley:

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Separately, the first thing I notice is that I think your URL for the /flights endpoint is incorrect. The documentation refers to using the Session ID of the server – not the name of the server – in the URL.

But your code appears to use selectedServer to build the URL which is a hard-coded value of expert. If you read the Live API documentation it says you need to use the Session ID for the server and you get that by calling the following endpoint to get a list of all server sessions: Get Sessions | Infinite Flight

This will return a list of entries that look like this:

{
  "errorCode": 0,
  "result": [
    {
      "maxUsers": 1000,
      "id": "89573c7f-d398-4281-bcc0-3e9b7f6b8492",
      "name": "Sample Server",
      "userCount": 187,
      "type": 0,
      "worldType": 0,
      "minimumGradeLevel": 2
    }
  ]
}

You want to find the entry in the results for the server you want and use the value of id for that server in constructing your URL.

I suspect that because your URL doesn’t use the Session ID the response you get back is an error response and not a proper API response which is why you are triggering this error.

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ahhh, I see. Thanks I’m gonna try that