--private-key: Provided value not valid about cli-tools

[VeArnold]

@thmatuza If you encrypt the contents of the key, and the environment variable is set as APP_STORE_CONNECT_PRIVATE_KEY, then I would imagine that it would work. In any case it is also important to make sure that you have copied the entire contents.

https://github.com/codemagic-ci-cd/cli-tools/blob/master/docs/app-store-connect/README.md#--private-keyprivate_key

What command exactly are you running and what output are you getting? Are you sure that your variable is correctly set?

[thmatuza]

This means I paste the contents of the key on the Paste the value of the variable here edit box, right?

I tried it again and it worked!
I guess I made a mistake last time.

Thank you for your help!

[VeArnold]

Hey Luic!

It's most likely that you've encrypted the file, not the content, and have not base64 decoded it.

If you share a build link, I'm happy to take a look, thanks.

[priitlatt]

No activity. Closing.

[thmatuza]

I have same problem.
In this line, it is checking if $APP_STORE_CONNECT_PRIVATE_KEY start with "-----BEGIN ".

cli-tools/src/codemagic/tools/_app_store_connect/arguments.py

Line 34 in 76e06f2

return value.startswith('-----BEGIN ')

However, $APP_STORE_CONNECT_PRIVATE_KEY is supposed to be base64 encoded, so it shouldn't start with "-----BEGIN ", I think.

[VeArnold]

@thmatuza Hey - there are two options: you either base64 encode the key (in which case it is a file and you will have to decode it before using this tool) or you encrypt the contents of the key (in this case you do not need to - and should not - base64 encode the string). Thus effectively, it starts with -----BEGIN if done correctly.

[thmatuza]

you encrypt the contents of the key

This means I paste the contents of the key on the Paste the value of the variable here edit box, right?

If I use Choose a file or drag it here, it will base64 encode, so I need to base64 decode on the script, correct?

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[thmatuza]

This means I paste the contents of the key on the Paste the value of the variable here edit box, right?

I just tried but I guess no.

How can I encrypt the contents of the key?