Using Object Mapping with Kinvey - swift

Question

I have an array of objects I'm trying to get out of one of my collections. I've followed along using their docs and also some Googling and I believe I'm close to the solution, however not close enough. Here's what I have:
class Clothing: Entity {
var categories: [Category]!
var gender: String!
override class func collectionName() -> String {
//return the name of the backend collection corresponding to this entity
return "categories"
}
override func propertyMapping(_ map: Map) {
super.propertyMapping(map)
categories <- map["clothing"]
gender <- map["gender"]
}
}
class Category: NSObject, Mappable{
var title: String?
var image: String?
convenience required init?(map: Map) {
self.init()
}
func mapping(map: Map) {
title <- map["category"]
image <- map["image"]
}
}
I'm able to get the right gender, but the array of categories doesn't seem to get mapped to the Category object. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

your model actually have one issue, as you can see at https://devcenter.kinvey.com/ios/guides/datastore#Model you should use let categories = List<Category>() instead of var categories: [Category]!. Here's the model that and test and worked:
import Kinvey
class Clothing: Entity {
let categories = List<Category>()
var gender: String!
override class func collectionName() -> String {
//return the name of the backend collection corresponding to this entity
return "clothing"
}
override func propertyMapping(_ map: Map) {
super.propertyMapping(map)
categories <- ("categories", map["categories"])
gender <- ("gender", map["gender"])
}
}
class Category: Object, Mappable{
var title: String?
var image: String?
convenience required init?(map: Map) {
self.init()
}
func mapping(map: Map) {
title <- ("category", map["category"])
image <- ("image", map["image"])
}
}
and here's a sample code how to save a new Clothing object
let casualCategory = Category()
casualCategory.title = "Casual"
let shirtCategory = Category()
shirtCategory.title = "Shirt"
let clothing = Clothing()
clothing.gender = "male"
clothing.categories.append(shirtCategory)
clothing.categories.append(casualCategory)
dataStore.save(clothing) { (result: Result<Clothing, Swift.Error>) in
switch result {
case .success(let clothing):
print(clothing)
case .failure(let error):
print(error)
}
}