How to update a posted object in RestKit with different primary key attributes?

Question

I'm posting objects on a server as JSON that consists of a few attributes and an ID that is the primary key attribute. I'm also using Core Data to save all the objects locally.

The problem is that when I first create the object to POST I know all the attributes but the unique ID. The ID is set at server-side, and when I get the response from the server I have ended up with two objects in my database: One with ID 0, and one with the real ID.

Is there any way to get restkit/coredata to treat these two objects as the same, or alternatively don't save the first object in the database?

Answer 1

You can use the postObject: usingBlock method and assign a target object for the object loader like this.

[[RKObjectManager sharedManager] postObject:myObject usingBlock:^(RKObjectLoader *loader) {
                loader.targetObject = myObject;
                loader.delegate = self;
                loader.objectMapping = [[RKObjectManager sharedManager].mappingProvider objectMappingForClass:[myObject class]];
}

Note that you also have to set the delegate manually in the block of code every time you run the method.