How to get all purchases from Google in app billing?

Question

I need to get all the items purchased from in app billing from google play. I can see the function I want

getAllOwnedSkus() 

in the class below provided by google but it's visibility is not public. I could simply change it to public but there has to be another way to get all the owned skus by the user?

public class Inventory {
    Map<String,SkuDetails> mSkuMap = new HashMap<String,SkuDetails>();
    Map<String,Purchase> mPurchaseMap = new HashMap<String,Purchase>();

    Inventory() { }

    /** Returns the listing details for an in-app product. */
    public SkuDetails getSkuDetails(String sku) {
        return mSkuMap.get(sku);
    }

    /** Returns purchase information for a given product, or null if there is no purchase. */
    public Purchase getPurchase(String sku) {
        return mPurchaseMap.get(sku);
    }

    /** Returns whether or not there exists a purchase of the given product. */
    public boolean hasPurchase(String sku) {
        return mPurchaseMap.containsKey(sku);
    }

    /** Return whether or not details about the given product are available. */
    public boolean hasDetails(String sku) {
        return mSkuMap.containsKey(sku);
    }

    /**
     * Erase a purchase (locally) from the inventory, given its product ID. This just
     * modifies the Inventory object locally and has no effect on the server! This is
     * useful when you have an existing Inventory object which you know to be up to date,
     * and you have just consumed an item successfully, which means that erasing its
     * purchase data from the Inventory you already have is quicker than querying for
     * a new Inventory.
     */
    public void erasePurchase(String sku) {
        if (mPurchaseMap.containsKey(sku)) mPurchaseMap.remove(sku);
    }

    /** Returns a list of all owned product IDs. */
    List<String> getAllOwnedSkus() {
        return new ArrayList<String>(mPurchaseMap.keySet());
    }

    /** Returns a list of all owned product IDs of a given type */
    List<String> getAllOwnedSkus(String itemType) {
        List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (Purchase p : mPurchaseMap.values()) {
            if (p.getItemType().equals(itemType)) result.add(p.getSku());
        }
        return result;
    }

    /** Returns a list of all purchases. */
    List<Purchase> getAllPurchases() {
        return new ArrayList<Purchase>(mPurchaseMap.values());
    }

    void addSkuDetails(SkuDetails d) {
        mSkuMap.put(d.getSku(), d);
    }

    void addPurchase(Purchase p) {
        mPurchaseMap.put(p.getSku(), p);
    }
}

but it's visibility is not public? I can simply change this but is there another way?

Answer 1

You are talking about IabHelper application from Google. This is not the official API, but just an example of how you can use In-app Billing API. You can change this app in any way you want to. There is only one drawback in changing it. If Google releases a new update to this app, you will need to merge changes back into your code. The less changes you have, the easier will be the merge. Making method public is not a big deal in that respect.