iOS CFBundleIdentifier ... contains illegal character ' '

[BlackMax]

Hi,

I'm new to Xcode and iPhone programming, so pardon the question if it is a really simply fix. I keep getting the following build error and have not been able to determine the root cause. It only happens when I'm building to my iPhone and not when I build to the iPhone simulator. I've successfully built another small App to my iPhone, so I *believe* my development certificate and provisioning profile are OK.

Has anyone seen the following error before:

Building target “Button Fun” of project “Button Fun” with configuration “Debug”

ProcessingProductPackaging /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.2.1.sdk/Entitlements.plist "/Users/jcridge/My_Projects/Button Fun/build/Button Fun.build/Debug-iphoneos/Button Fun.build/Button Fun.xcent"

<com.apple.tools.product-pkg-utility>: error: CFBundleIdentifier 'com.yourcompany.Button Fun' contains illegal character ' '

I see references to the file "Entitlements.plist", but I've looked and cannot find this file associated with my project.

Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[dejo]

CFBundleIdentifier cannot contain a space like 'com.yourcompany.Button Fun' does.

 

[BlackMax]

CFBundleIdentifier cannot contain a space like 'com.yourcompany.Button Fun' does.

Thanks dejo for the explanation. That makes sense and I did see that space there, but everywhere I looked in Xcode for this project I saw that Xcode placed an underscore in the name such as "button_fun".

Now I'm trying to figure out where to correctly replace this space with an underscore. Is the "CFBundleIdentifier" variable the same thing as the "Bundle intentifier" field in my "Button_Fun-Info.plist" file?

This field contains the following entry:

com.yourcompany.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}

So it appears the ${PRODUCT_NAME} variable fills in the application name here?

What is the best way to remove the space in the "CFBundleIdentifier" variable?

Thanks again for you assistance.

 

[zakkhoyt]

Very strange......

I have my App ID set up as nnnnnnnnnn.*, where n is an integer.

Used to be I could just enter '*' for the identifier in the target and/or plist (target is looked at before plist for validation FYI. I just found that out and found it useful).

Now I have upgraded to os/sdk 3.0b3 / xcode 3.1.3. It seems that now, '*' is not allowed, so I tried ${PRODUCT_NAME}. However, the product name contains an '_', which is also an illegal char..... pffffftttt! I just ended up entering my firstlast name..... it works, but doesn't really make sense.

I don't know why there are so many illegal chars now, but it's working for me now. I hope this information helps someone

 

[Niiro13]

So it appears the ${PRODUCT_NAME} variable fills in the application name here?

What is the best way to remove the space in the "CFBundleIdentifier" variable?

Thanks again for you assistance.

You can simply replace the ${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier} with ButtonFun. or whatever.

 

[man2manno]

Question too

I have a similar question.
I submitted an app to the App Store about a month ago and the Bundle Identifier was something like:
<full_reverse_dns_university_and_application_or_suite_name>
I am trying to update that same app, and I made the bundle Identifier the same thing however I am getting that "The bundle identifier contains disallowed characters" error. But when I make it the .com.yourcompany.yourappname I get an error saying something like "The Applications bundle identifier needs to be the same as the minor verison"

Any thoughts? Thanks