Roland, thanks for the description. That's useful to know.
But now I seem to have broken the iCloud syncing. Is there a correct way to
'reset' the cloud for testing purposes? I tried deleting the app container
under 'Mobile Documents'. First on one machine (machine A), which resulted in
that machine not receiving the data from the cloud. Then I tried deleting it on
the other machine (machine B). On this machine when I launch the app, a bunch
of files and folders are created. But on machine A, nothing much happens in the
Mobile Documents directory when I launch the app. I'm using the same code-base
on each machine, so the app should be identical.
Anyone any idea what could be going on? I don't see any errors in the Console.
I'd like to reset the two machines and the cloud so that I can start again.
This seems an essential step when testing.
Thanks in advance for any further insight,
Martin
On 4, Nov, 2011, at 03:06 PM, Roland King wrote:
>
> On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Martin Hewitson wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4, Nov, 2011, at 02:01 AM, Roland King wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> So, can I conclude from this that iCloud and core-data only works with SQL
>>>> store? The WWDC video hints at this, but was not explicit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not so. I have a core data app running using icloud and an XML store. This
>>> is ios by the way and the store is not incremental, it's just being treated
>>> as a blob which is fully synced each time but it's small so that's ok.
>>>
>>> Definitely if you want the incremental log style store you have to use SQL
>>> but in general core data in iCloud will let you use whatever you like.
>>
>> I hadn't realised that I had made a choice. How does one choose an
>> incremental store as opposed to a blob? Any pointers how you got your
>> core-data iCloud app working would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Those two keys you add when you open the persistent store,
> NSPersistentStoreUbiquitousContentNameKey and
> NSPersistentStoreUbiquitousContentURLKey are the ones which tell Core Data
> you're using the log file based core data (only available with SQLite). So
> with that store, the actual SQLite database isn't in the cloud, it's kept
> local, but a log file directory is created which is in the cloud and deltas
> are synched up there. The idea is that each client just brings down the log
> files and updates the database at a record level. Those keys only mean
> anything with the SQLite store, which may be why you're having issues with
> migration. I don't use any of those keys, I just have my store as a local
> file which is synched wholesale.
>
> For your original mail, you want to migrate to SQLLite and then also migrate
> to iCloud. I don't know if you can do that easily in one step. If I were
> looking at this I would probably think of creating a new SQLLite store for
> the migration, empty, opening the old local XML store and then migrating the
> objects over with code. Whether you choose to make the new SQLite store local
> and then migrate it up to iCloud or make it in the cloud and then update it
> is a question I don't have a good answer to, I'm still a little confused by
> how the initial log files get magically created when you migrate a document
> to iCloud, I'm definitely missing a piece of information somewhere.
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