ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK returning empty authToken in response?

Question

I wanted an OCR solution for my project and I found ABBYY cloud OCR SDK interesting. I was just checking out a sample provided in the gitHub link. The project requires an applicationID and a password to authenticate in their server. I got the required credentials by registering in their site as a free trial. The problem is that I cannot authenticate. I get an empty authToken as response.

It gets crash here

NSString *installationId = [responseDictionary valueForKey:@"authToken"];

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:installationId forKey:kOCRSDKInstallationId]; 
NSParameterAssert(self.installationId);

These are from the sample project I used. I cannot figure out the reason for this.

Its an exceptional breakpoint at NSParameterAssert(self.installationId);

I get this on crashing

Assertion failure in -[OCRDemoClient activateInstallationWithDeviceId:success:failure:force:], /Users/meerajpai/Meera/OCR/ocrsdk.com- master/iOS/Pods/OCRSDKClient/OCRSDKClient/OCRSDKClient.m:98

Close look at the screenshot is available here

Here is the response

Printing description of responseDictionary:
{
    "__name" = response;
    "_xmlns" = "http://ocrsdk.com/schema/response-1.0.xsd";
    "_xmlns:xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    "_xsi:schemaLocation" = "http://ocrsdk.com/schema/response-1.0.xsd http://ocrsdk.com/schema/response-1.0.xsd";
    authToken =     {
    };
}

I am interested to know why cant I authenticate? Did I miss something ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The issue occurs because of an error in the sample code. It should be fixed this week, the temporary solution please see in this post.