iphone Core Data Unresolved error while saving

Question

I am getting a strange error message from the core data when trying to save but the problem that the error is not reproducible ( it appears at different times when doing dif

Answer 1

I'm throwing this in as an answer, even though it's really more of an embellishment to Charles' snippet. The straight output from NSLog can be a mess to read and interpret, so I like to throw in some white space and call out the value of some critical 'userInfo' keys.

Here's a version of the method I've been using. ('_sharedManagedObjectContext' is a #define for '[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] managedObjectContext]'.)

- (BOOL)saveData {
    NSError *error;
    if (![_sharedManagedObjectContext save:&error]) {
        // If Cocoa generated the error...
        if ([[error domain] isEqualToString:@"NSCocoaErrorDomain"]) {
            // ...check whether there's an NSDetailedErrors array            
            NSDictionary *userInfo = [error userInfo];
            if ([userInfo valueForKey:@"NSDetailedErrors"] != nil) {
                // ...and loop through the array, if so.
                NSArray *errors = [userInfo valueForKey:@"NSDetailedErrors"];
                for (NSError *anError in errors) {

                    NSDictionary *subUserInfo = [anError userInfo];
                    subUserInfo = [anError userInfo];
                    // Granted, this indents the NSValidation keys rather a lot
                    // ...but it's a small loss to keep the code more readable.
                    NSLog(@"Core Data Save Error\n\n \
                      NSValidationErrorKey\n%@\n\n \
                      NSValidationErrorPredicate\n%@\n\n \
                      NSValidationErrorObject\n%@\n\n \
                      NSLocalizedDescription\n%@", 
                      [subUserInfo valueForKey:@"NSValidationErrorKey"], 
                      [subUserInfo valueForKey:@"NSValidationErrorPredicate"], 
                      [subUserInfo valueForKey:@"NSValidationErrorObject"], 
                      [subUserInfo valueForKey:@"NSLocalizedDescription"]);
                }
            }
            // If there was no NSDetailedErrors array, print values directly
            // from the top-level userInfo object. (Hint: all of these keys
            // will have null values when you've got multiple errors sitting
            // behind the NSDetailedErrors key.
            else {
                    NSLog(@"Core Data Save Error\n\n \
                      NSValidationErrorKey\n%@\n\n \
                      NSValidationErrorPredicate\n%@\n\n \
                      NSValidationErrorObject\n%@\n\n \
                      NSLocalizedDescription\n%@", 
                      [userInfo valueForKey:@"NSValidationErrorKey"], 
                      [userInfo valueForKey:@"NSValidationErrorPredicate"], 
                      [userInfo valueForKey:@"NSValidationErrorObject"], 
                      [userInfo valueForKey:@"NSLocalizedDescription"]);

            }
        } 
        // Handle mine--or 3rd party-generated--errors
        else {
            NSLog(@"Custom Error: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
        }
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

This allows me to see the value for 'NSValidationErrorKey', which, when I encountered the issue from the OP, pointed directly to the non-optional Core Data entities that I'd forgot to set before trying to save.