Why Realm "to many" relationship having always the same reference? - swift

Question

Why is the realm-list containing the very same elements instead of different ones ?
As you can see in the picture below, there are two relam-objects (UndoMemoryNameEntry and NameEntry). The first one contains a list of 8 elements. The list's element-type is of type NameEntry !
My last NameEntry object is written with currentScorePlayer=1 and currentScoreMe=15 as you can see in the picture below:
The list in UndoMemoryNameEntry is correctly inserted the last NameEntry object. You find the insertion-code further down...
But now the problem: Why are all the existing list-elements as well changed to the newest inserted element ???? As you can see in the picture below, all the elements are unfortunately identical to the last one added - why ??????
If I change the NameEntry to the following :
And inserting at index=0 to the list, then the List changes to :
Why are all the elments changed ? And not just the inserted one ??? Thanks for any help on this !
My two realm-objects are :
class NameEntry: Object {
dynamic var playerName = ""
dynamic var isMyAdversary: Bool = false
dynamic var currentScorePlayer: Int = 0
dynamic var currentScoreMe: Int = 0
}
and the List :
class UndoMemoryNameEntry: Object {
dynamic var undoPlayerName = ""
let NameEntryList = List<NameEntry>()
}
The following code creates the Realm-List :
// query rlm for existing object (with name adversary
let undoPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "undoPlayerName == %#", adversaryName)
let undoPlayerName = rlm.objects(UndoMemoryNameEntry).sorted("undoPlayerName", ascending: true).filter(undoPredicate)
// if undoPlayerName object does not exist - then create it!
if (undoPlayerName.count < 1) {
rlm.beginWrite()
let undoEntry = UndoMemoryNameEntry()
undoEntry.undoPlayerName = adversaryName
rlm.add(undoEntry)
rlm.commitWrite()
}
The following code adds a "NameEntry"-Element in the List :
let undoPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "undoPlayerName == %#", plaNameLab)
let undoPlayerName = rlm.objects(UndoMemoryNameEntry).sorted("undoPlayerName", ascending: true).filter(undoPredicate)
if (undoPlayerName.count == 1) {
rlm.beginWrite()
println(entry)
var undoEntry = undoPlayerName[0] as UndoMemoryNameEntry
undoEntry.NameEntryList.insert(entry, atIndex: 0)
rlm.commitWrite()
}
The above code-excerts work perfectly - except that the realm-List always changes all its elements to the one just inserted.

Answer 1

I finally found a solution:
First of all rearrange the two realm objects as follows:
class NameEntry: Object {
dynamic var playerName = ""
dynamic var currentScorePlayer: Int = 0
dynamic var currentScoreMe: Int = 0
// the undo-list is better placed in the first object...
let undoEntryList = List<UndoMemoryNameEntry>()
override static func primaryKey() -> String? {
return "playerName"
}
}
class UndoMemoryNameEntry: Object {
dynamic var undoPlayerName = ""
dynamic var currentScorePlayer: Int = 0
dynamic var currentScoreMe: Int = 0
// no primary key here since the undoEntry will have several items with the same undoPlayerName
}
Then when adding a "NameEntry"-Element in the List :
let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "playerName == %#", plaNameLab)
let playerName = rlm.objects(NameEntry).sorted("playerName", ascending: true).filter(predicate)
if (playerName.count == 1) {
rlm.beginWrite()
var entry = playerName[0] as NameEntry
// you need to create a new list object first !!!!!!!!!!!!
// ...in my initial example, this creation was missing !!!!!!
var siblingEntry = UndoMemoryNameEntry()
siblingEntry.undoPlayerName = plaNameLab
siblingEntry.currentScorePlayer = entry.currentScorePlayer
siblingEntry.currentScoreMe = entry.currentScoreMe
// insert new list-element
entry.undoEntryList.insert(siblingEntry, atIndex: 0)
// alternatively choose append if you want to add the element at the end of the list
entry.undoEntryList.append(siblingEntry)
// or choose the "ringbuffer-solution" given in the add-on below if you want to restrict the number of list-elements to ringbuffer-size !
// ...
rlm.commitWrite()
}
Add-on: If you want to create a ringbuffer having only a limited number of list-elements:
// create ringbuffer of 20 elements (20th element will be newest)
let ringBufferSize = 20
let undoPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "undoPlayerName == %#", plaNameLab)
if (entry.undoEntryList.filter(undoPredicate).sorted("undoPlayerName").count < ringBufferSize) {
entry.undoEntryList.append(siblingEntry)
}
else {
// entry.undoEntryList.replace(ringBufferSize-1, object: siblingEntry)
entry.undoEntryList.removeAtIndex(ringBufferSize-1)
entry.undoEntryList.append(siblingEntry)
for index in 0..<ringBufferSize-1 {
let tempEntry1 = rlm.objects(UndoMemoryNameEntry).filter(undoPredicate).sorted("undoPlayerName")[index] as UndoMemoryNameEntry
let tempEntry2 = rlm.objects(UndoMemoryNameEntry).filter(undoPredicate).sorted("undoPlayerName")[index+1] as UndoMemoryNameEntry
tempEntry1.currentScorePlayer = tempEntry2.currentScorePlayer
tempEntry1.currentScoreMe = tempEntry2.currentScoreMe
}
let tempEntry = rlm.objects(UndoMemoryNameEntry).filter(undoPredicate).sorted("undoPlayerName")[ringBufferSize-1] as UndoMemoryNameEntry
rlm.delete(tempEntry)
}