Failing to get remote config data

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Hi there,

I recently migrated from Unity Remote Settings to Unity Remote Config in order to avoid the config limit.

I only have the two initial environments (Release and Development), and to both of them I imported settings from my Remote Settings as per Unity’s own guide . Neither have Rules as I want this config to be available to all players.
I was able to Pull the config to Unity through the Remote Config window.

For some reason, however, I am unable to pull the data from Unity Config. The request is sent and I believe it returns successfully, but it’s as if none of my configs are present - when I try to get an int, for example, I always have 0 returned. From what I understand this is the behavior when a key cannot be found.

I wrote this class to manage interactions with Remote Config. This class is attached to an otherwise empty gameobject in the start scene:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Unity.RemoteConfig;
using System;

public class RemoteConfigManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static RemoteConfigManager RemoteConfig;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (RemoteConfig != null && RemoteConfig != this)
        {
            Destroy(this.gameObject);
            return;
        }
        RemoteConfig = this;
        DontDestroyOnLoad(this);

        ConfigManager.FetchCompleted += ApplyRemoteSettings;
    }

    void ApplyRemoteSettings(ConfigResponse configResponse)
    {
        // Conditionally update settings, depending on the response's origin:
        switch (configResponse.requestOrigin)
        {
            case ConfigOrigin.Default:
                Debug.Log("No settings loaded this session; using default values.");
                break;
            case ConfigOrigin.Cached:
                Debug.Log("No settings loaded this session; using cached values from a previous session.");
                break;
            case ConfigOrigin.Remote:
                Debug.Log("New settings loaded this session; update values accordingly.");
                break;
        }
    }

    public int GetInt(string key, int default_value)
    {
        try
        {
            return ConfigManager.appConfig.GetInt(key);
        }
        catch
        {
            return default_value;
        }
    }

    public float GetFloat(string key, float default_value)
    {
        try
        {
            return ConfigManager.appConfig.GetFloat(key);
        }
        catch
        {
            return default_value;
        }
    }

    public string GetString(string key, string default_value)
    {
        try
        {
            return ConfigManager.appConfig.GetString(key);
        }
        catch
        {
            return default_value;
        }
    }

    public bool GetBool(string key, bool default_value)
    {
        try
        {
            return ConfigManager.appConfig.GetBool(key);
        }
        catch
        {
            return default_value;
        }
    }
}

Other scripts throughout the game can reference the static variable RemoteConfig to get data when they need it:

    private void Start()
    {
        if (globalFillMultiplier == -1f)
            globalFillMultiplier = RemoteConfigManager.RemoteConfig.GetFloat("global_FillMultiplier", globalFillMultiplier_defaultValue);
}

I assume I am failing because I forgot something or misunderstood the documentation. Please let me know if you have any idea what might be wrong :slight_smile:

Specs & Versions:

  • Using Unity 2020.1.3f1
  • Using the verified Remote Config package (1.0.9)

P.S.
On a different note, I want to never use cached Remote Config data. How can I disable it?

Thanks in advance!

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UPDATE -

I figured out why I was unsuccessfully getting data - I was missing the FetchConfigs method.
Since I don’t want to use any optional flags, I needed to do two things:

  1. Add userAttributes and appAttributes structs to my project:
    public struct userAttributes
    {
        // Optionally declare variables for any custom user attributes:
    }

    public struct appAttributes
    {
        // Optionally declare variables for any custom app attributes:
    }
  1. Alter my Awake method:
    private void Awake()
    {
        if (RemoteConfig != null && RemoteConfig != this)
        {
            Destroy(this.gameObject);
            return;
        }
        RemoteConfig = this;
        DontDestroyOnLoad(this);

        ConfigManager.FetchCompleted += ApplyRemoteSettings;
        ConfigManager.FetchConfigs<userAttributes, appAttributes>(new userAttributes(), new appAttributes());
    }

My second question still stands - I’d love to know how to avoid cache, and how to set default values for my requested data. Thanks!

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