I am using CoreData for local storage and CloudKit to handle cloud sync. I have set up CloudKit subscriptions to detect remote changes. These notifications provide a CKRecord
representing the data which was added. The records are automatically synced with the CoreData store. How can I reconcile the CKRecord
to an NSManagedObject
? I need to be able to interact with it in the same way I do the entities fetched directly from CoreData.
Here is something I have been working on code-wise. The problem is that the recordName
field which identifies the record in CloudKit does not exist in the CoreData store, so I get an unhandled exception. But I don't know what field (if any) will match the CloudKit record's name field.
//CKRecord+NSManagedObject
- (NSManagedObject*)managedObject {
NSPersistentCloudKitContainer *container = [CoreDataFunctions persistentContainer];
NSManagedObjectModel *managedObjectModel = container.managedObjectModel;
NSDictionary *entitiesByName = managedObjectModel.entitiesByName;
NSString *recordType = [self.recordType stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"CD_" withString:@""];
NSEntityDescription *entityDescription = [entitiesByName valueForKey:recordType];
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:entityDescription.name];
fetchRequest.fetchLimit = 1;
fetchRequest.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"recordName == %@", self.recordID.recordName];
NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *results = [[CoreDataFunctions managedObjectContext] executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];
NSManagedObject *managedObject;
if (error) {
NSLog(@"Error %@", error);
}
else {
if (results.count == 0) {
NSLog(@"No result");
}
else {
managedObject = results.firstObject;
NSLog(@"%@", managedObject.entity.propertiesByName);
}
}
return managedObject;
}
I don't know if there is a better way, but I ended up adding a field to my CoreData database called cloudID
. Every time an NSManagedObject
instance is created and inserted into the database, its cloudID
is set to [NSUUID UUID]
. This gets pushed up to the same field in CloudKit, so I can then use it to match the CloudKit CKRecord
with the CoreData NSManagedObject
.