UICollectionView Assertion failure

Question

I m getting this error on performing insertItemsAtIndexPaths in UICollectionView

Assertion failure in:

-[UICollectionViewD         


        

Answer 1

I've posted a work around for this issue here: https://gist.github.com/iwasrobbed/5528897

In the private category at the top of your .m file:

@interface MyViewController ()
{
    BOOL shouldReloadCollectionView;
    NSBlockOperation *blockOperation;
}
@end

Then your delegate callbacks would be:

- (void)controllerWillChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller
{
    shouldReloadCollectionView = NO;
    blockOperation = [NSBlockOperation new];
}

- (void)controller:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller didChangeSection:(id)sectionInfo
           atIndex:(NSUInteger)sectionIndex forChangeType:(NSFetchedResultsChangeType)type
{
    __weak UICollectionView *collectionView = self.collectionView;
    switch (type) {
        case NSFetchedResultsChangeInsert: {
            [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                [collectionView insertSections:[NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex:sectionIndex]];
            }];
            break;
        }

        case NSFetchedResultsChangeDelete: {
            [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                [collectionView deleteSections:[NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex:sectionIndex]];
            }];
            break;
        }

        case NSFetchedResultsChangeUpdate: {
            [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                [collectionView reloadSections:[NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex:sectionIndex]];
            }];
            break;
        }

        default:
            break;
    }
}

- (void)controller:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller didChangeObject:(id)anObject atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath forChangeType:(NSFetchedResultsChangeType)type newIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)newIndexPath
{
    __weak UICollectionView *collectionView = self.collectionView;
    switch (type) {
        case NSFetchedResultsChangeInsert: {
            if ([self.collectionView numberOfSections] > 0) {
                if ([self.collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:indexPath.section] == 0) {
                    shouldReloadCollectionView = YES;
                } else {
                    [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                        [collectionView insertItemsAtIndexPaths:@[newIndexPath]];
                    }];
                }
            } else {
                shouldReloadCollectionView = YES;
            }
            break;
        }

        case NSFetchedResultsChangeDelete: {
            if ([self.collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:indexPath.section] == 1) {
                shouldReloadCollectionView = YES;
            } else {
                [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                    [collectionView deleteItemsAtIndexPaths:@[indexPath]];
                }];
            }
            break;
        }

        case NSFetchedResultsChangeUpdate: {
            [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                [collectionView reloadItemsAtIndexPaths:@[indexPath]];
            }];
            break;
        }

        case NSFetchedResultsChangeMove: {
            [blockOperation addExecutionBlock:^{
                [collectionView moveItemAtIndexPath:indexPath toIndexPath:newIndexPath];
            }];
            break;
        }

        default:
            break;
    }
}

- (void)controllerDidChangeContent:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller
{
    // Checks if we should reload the collection view to fix a bug @ http://openradar.appspot.com/12954582
    if (shouldReloadCollectionView) {
        [self.collectionView reloadData];
    } else {
        [self.collectionView performBatchUpdates:^{
            [blockOperation start];
        } completion:nil];
    }
}

Credit for this approach goes to Blake Watters.