启动时未加载同步的领域

Question

I'm attempting to use Realm Object Server in my ios app. I am hosting it on AWS, and I can successfully read and write to it. However, I'm having a problem accessing the synced realm after launching my app. On launch, I have a login view controller (very similar to the one provided in the example app)

After authenticating successfully, I want to access the synced Realm to decide which view controller to present.

@IBAction func logIn(sender: AnyObject?) {
    guard userInputValid() else {
        return
    }
    self.activityIndicator.startAnimating()
    self.logInButton.isHidden = true
    SyncUser.authenticate(with: Credential.usernamePassword(username: userNameTextField.text!, password: passwordTextField.text!, actions: []), server: syncAuthURL!, onCompletion: { user, error in
        guard let user = user else {
            self.presentError(error: error as! NSError)
            self.activityIndicator.stopAnimating()
            self.logInButton.isHidden = false
            return
        }

        Realm.Configuration.defaultConfiguration = Realm.Configuration(
            syncConfiguration: (user, self.syncServerURL!),
            objectTypes: [Dot.self, Mod.self]
        )

        let realm = try! Realm()
        // realm.objects(Dot.self).count == 0 here even though there is a Dot object persisted in the server
        // When I access the realm later in the app (e.g in a viewDidAppear of another controller) the object is there
        let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
        let vc = DotCollectionViewController(nibName: "DotCollectionViewController", bundle: nil)
        let navVC = UINavigationController(rootViewController: vc)
        appDelegate.window?.rootViewController = navVC
    })
}

I have validated reads and writes to the synced Realm and found something peculiar: the realm seems to have a fileURL of null even when I'm able to write data successfully. I am accessing the realm in other parts of my app using let realm = try! Realm() let realm = try! Realm() and when I do print(realm.configuration.fileURL) I always get nil, even for valid synced Realms.

So my question is, do I have to wait some period of time for the synced Realm to be accessible? If so, how would I go about doing this? Any help on this issue would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

It's expected that the fileURL of a synced Realm's configuration be nil , since the file location is managed my Realm and inaccessible to the user (you).

When opening a synced Realm for the first time on a device, the Realm will be accessible as soon as a valid SyncUser exists, provided by the SyncUser.authenticate(...) callback. However, its contents will be populated asynchronously, which is why realm.objects(Dot.self) is empty when immediately opening the Realm, but later gets the objects from the server.

If it's important to wait for that data to be available before proceeding with a part of your app, there are two ways Realm is working on to do that in the near future:

• The ability to download a full Realm in a single operation
• The ability to detect if there are any remote changes not present in the local Realm.