fastlane: Cannot look up iTunes Connect provider IDs programmatically

The output of iTMSTransporter -m provider looks like this. The provider ID is the “Short Name” column. You can see how in this case it is a mix of team IDs from newer accounts and slugs from older accounts. (You can also see where the interactive password prompt was.)

[2017-12-20 16:11:39 CST] <main>  INFO: Transporter is searching for updated software components.
[2017-12-20 16:11:39 CST] <main>  INFO: No updates found.
null's password: 
 
Provider listing:
    - Long Name -                          - Short Name -
1   From Now On, LLC                       234Z7G6S62
2   IMG College, LLC                       IMGCollege
3   Lincoln Consolidated School District   LH47NLSU59
4   Rogers State University                RogersStateUniversity
5   Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi  TexasAMUniversity-CorpusChristi
6   University of Arkansas                 UniversityofArkansas
7   University of Richmond                 UniversityofRichmond
8   Vanderbilt University                  VanderbiltITS
9   Walters Public School                  3AG896S277
10  West Plains R-VII School District      8T8K2ZY6S4
11  Yellville Summit School District       J4XCT8K72S

There is already code to find and invoke iTMSTransporter in itunes_transporter.rb in fastlane_core, but it is only capable of performing the transporter’s upload and lookupMetadata commands, and parsing their output. I believe the first place to do work on this would probably be in that file, itunes_transporter.rb.

Thanks! I just started looking into this last night.

This is still an outstanding issue that would be great to address.

Is anyone working on this? I still think it is very useful to have. If no one is, I’ll see if I can take a stab at it.

When you have multiple accounts, you need to collect 3 pieces of information.

1. team_id which is the 10-character string
2. itc_team_id which is the numeric itunes connect team id
3. itc_provider_id which in newer accounts matches team_id, but for older accounts is a slug for the business name. (e.g. AwesomeOrgLLC)

   app_team_id = 'AB83BKF89B'
   itc_team_id = '1384242'
   itc_provider_id = 'AwesomeOrgLLC'

  upload_to_app_store(
      itc_provider: itc_provider_id || app_team_id,
      team_id: itc_team_id,
  )

This was also asked in #10710 This sort of relates to #9858 as itc_team_id and team_id are not the same.

It would be great if we could derive the iTunes Connect IDs based on the team_id, I am not 100% sure there is a link other than maybe the organization name.