On Apr 7, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> 
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Carter R. Harrison wrote:
> 
>> I really appreciate all of your help.  I gave your suggestion a shot and 
>> I've run into problems.  Here's what happens.
>> 
>> 1. I create a new NSManagedObject in my main application.  It gets inserted 
>> into the context.
>> 2. I save the context.  I can see the persistent store update in a text 
>> editor (its an XML store).
>> 3. I send a distributed notification with the NSManagedObject's ObjectID.
>> 4. My background application consumes the notification and uses the object 
>> ID to get an NSManagedObject (using [NSManagedObjectContext objectWithID:].  
>> This produces an NSManagedObject that is a fault.
>> 5. I try to fire the fault by using [NSManagedObject valueForKey:].
>> 6. Step 5 results in an exception "CoreData could not fulfill a fault for 
>> '0x1001029e0 <x-coredata://BB194166-B2FB-48ED-8177-E66F95B6CA3A/Alert/p118>'"
>> 
>> I'm not sure I understand why this is happening.  If the object is truly a 
>> fault then shouldn't Core Data go back to the persistent store to find the 
>> object?
> 
> I think I've seen this before... Try calling sync() at the top of your 
> notification handler. That will force external database changes to be written 
> to disk.
> 
> If that doesn't work, then you may need to fetch the object from the context 
> using some identifier other than the object ID. We do this in our products 
> that share a database, and it works for us when a helper app receives a 
> notification from the master app that a record has been added/updated/deleted.
> 

Well no dice with either option.  sync() doesn't do it and a fetch request 
using a different identifier yields 0 objects.  Do your products use XML stores?


> Nick Zitzmann
> <http://www.chronosnet.com/>
> 

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