I have been developing an iOS app that utilizes the CloudKit feature available for Apple Developers. I've found it to be a wonderful resource, especially since the very day I started designing my backend, the service I was intending to use (Parse) announced it was shutting down. It's very appealing due to it's small learning curve, but I'm starting to notice some annoying little issues here and there so I'm seeking out some experts for advice and help. I posted another CloudKit question a couple days ago, which is still occurring: CloudKit Delete Self Option Not Working. But I want to limit this to a different issue that may be related.
Problem ~ Ever since I started using CloudKit I have noticed that whenever I manually try to edit (delete an entry, remove or add part of a list, even add a DeleteSelf option to a CKReference after creation), and then try to save the change, I get an error message and cannot proceed. Here is a screenshot of the error window that appears:
It's frustrating because anytime I want to manipulate a record to perform some sort of test, I either have to go do it through my app, or just delete the record entirely and create a new one (that I am able to do without issue). I have been just working around this issue for over a month now because it wasn't fatal to my progress. However, I am starting to think that this could be related to my other CloudKit issues, and maybe if I could get some advice on how to fix it I could also solve my other problems. I have file numerous bug reports with Apple, but haven't received a response or seen any changes.
I'd also like to mention that for a very long time now (at least a few days), I've noticed down in the bottom left hand corner of my Dashboard that it is consistently saying that it's "Reindexing Development Data". I remember at first that wasn't an issue, I would get that notification after making a change but it'd go away after the operation is complete. Now it seems to be stuck somewhere inside the process. And this is a chronic issue, it's saying this all the time, even right when I log into my dashboard.
Here is what I'm talking about:
As time goes on I find more small issues with CloudKit, I'm concerned that once I go into production more problems could start manifesting and then I could have a serious issue. I'd love to stick with CloudKit and avoid the learning curve of a different service like Amazon Web Services, but I also don't want to set myself up for failure.
Can anyone help me with this issue, or has anyone else experienced it on a regular basis? Thanks for the advice and help!
Pierce,
I found myself in a similar situation; the issue seemed to be linked to Assets; I had an Asset in my record definition. I and several other I noted reported the re-indexing issue on the apple support website and after about a month it eventually disappeared.
Have you tried resting your database schema completely, snapshot the definition; since you zap it completely and than reset, see inset.
Ultimately I simply created a new project, linked it to cloud kit and use the new container in my original app.
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I have a custom database application using Access 2016 (MS365 account) with backend data on a file server and a local front end with many VBA-driven forms. All has been working sweetly for several years, until this morning when myself and the all other users started to receive "No Current Record" errors on certain forms (not all).
I assumed it was a rogue record or corrupt DB so I went back to the previous day's backup data but the same problem occurred. No front-end code changes have been done recently, and in any case different users are using slightly different versions of the FE system, yet all suffer the problem, so it's not specific to particular VBA.
I went back many weeks of full data backups - all throw the same error now, although had worked fine at the time of course.
I've repaired and compacted, uncompiled and so on, but it won't clear the error.
I have a strange hunch it might relate to an Office update, as I believe the problem was not present on a machine that happened to be disconnected from the internet, but this is only 80% certain.
Has anyone ever had problems arising after updates? I cannot think of anything that has changed in the data or the front end so I'm struggling to understand what else it can be.
There have been multiple reports now that this may be a bug caused by Patch Tuesday updates. Refer to https://www.devhut.net/latest-office-update-version-2204-source-of-new-bugs/
So today I encountered something strange while looking at the new Realtime Database interface. While I was testing something which involved the deletion of some data I noticed this:
Video: https://imgur.com/a/HnFiWts
Basically the node bRqT3dAc5JhNWv0616lawe6w9Ln1 gets deleted by a cloud function with a simple remove() call on its reference. But as you can see in the video while it is getting deleted a few duplicates appear and get deleted immediately. I tested it for a while but the behavior seems to be random. It also sometimes happens when I try to delete some other node in the database but from the client.
This is why I think this is a visual bug and not a bug in my code:
The code is more than a year and half old and thus I have tested it countless times before and I have never seen this happen before.
There aren't any unexpected results from the code execution. This means that the database looks exactly as it should at the end of the code execution.
Since the only thing that has changed recently is the web interface for the database I think that this must be a visual bug, but I am still not 100% certain. Can someone else please confirm if this indeed is just a visual bug?
firebaser here
That indeed looks like a visual glitch that was introduced in a major update to our data viewer that was released a couple of weeks ago. As you said, it doesn't impact the data that is stored or even read, but it is definitely a bug.
From what I heard, our QA team just caught this one late last week too, but just to be certain: can you file a bug report with our support team for it, so they can track it too?
I am having issues with Kimono Labs. Every scrape I run will run indefinitely without throwing an error or completing. Occasionally, the scrapes will randomly start working days in the future without any changes on my behalf - only to fail a few days later. I love Kimono because it is so easy to integrate with Google Sheets for friends to alter the data, but this has become problematic. There doesn't seems to be any related help in the Kimono help data for an issue such as this.
One of my scrapes is not behind a paywall and the other is. One is set to run daily and the one behind the paywall is set to run hourly.
What steps can I take to troubleshoot this error and get the ball rolling again?
I had a very simple API doing the exact same thing for weeks!
I'm only using a free account so I didn't have any support but I ended up sending a bug report at https://www.kimonolabs.com/support .
Strangely enough, the very next day, the API started working normally again (and has ever since). I assume they looked into it and fixed whatever was stopping my crawl from completing.
I'm having an issue with an umbraco site of mine: For some reason some of the nodes are timing out when I try to click on them in the back-end of the site.
The front-end works fine and there aren't any slowdown issues there, however I'm unable to edit these same nodes in the back-end as the system seems to just hang. This is making it incredibly difficult to debug as I have no idea what properties are actually causing the problems here. What's strange is I can create a node of the same document type and enter in some dummy values and that works fine, yet I can't seem to edit the existing nodes.
I've tried republishing the entire site, republishing the individual nodes, deleting the umbraco.config file and nothing has worked up to this point.
What's also interesting is that if I close down the browser the system seems to stop hanging and I can log in and try again.
Has anyone encountered this before or know where to begin?
Thanks
I have encountered something similar. The longer you work with Umbraco the slower it becomes and if you check the memory usage in Chrome's task manager, you can see that certain actions upon nodes bump the memory usage up a little further. The answer is just to close down the tab and open a new one.
I have reported this and Umbraco cannot replicate this. However, I do think that this is possibly due to maybe a package installed into Umbraco, maybe uComponents. It's very difficult to pin point.
Update:
If you can access some nodes but not others, then this is actually slightly easier to debug. I would check what similarities the nodes that timeout have.
Are they all of the same document type?
Do they all use the same data type?
I would guess that the nodes in question are using a data type that is performing an operation when the node is loading, and that operation is timing out. For example, do you have any data types that load data from the database, like enums? Do you have any datatypes that load data from a web service?
Do you have any usercontrol data types wrapped in the UserControlWrapper data type? These would be somewhere to check.
Finally, check:
The databases [umbracoLog] table. Any Umbraco-specific errors will be listed there.
Check the computer's event viewer. This will show any unhandled errors.
My money's on a database timeout.
We're writing an application which uses our http api, and occasionally it will encounter errors, failed connections, timeouts, etc.
We'd like to, at least in beta, be able to capture these incidents, and forward them to ourselves somehow. Since obviously many of these issues could be due to the actual connection being down, this would need to queue these incidents and send them when a connection is available.
I tried googling for an answer for this but to no avail, came across a bunch of solutions which catch exceptions, but not just random "incidents" (could really just be a string we log somewhere, we'd just include all the details in it).
Short of writing my own coredata (or something) backed queue, I'm at a loss at what a solution for this could be.
Does anyone know of any libs/services which could help with this?
You might want to look into Testflight, or less general purpose, Parse. Not quite sure, but maybe HockeyKit offers a solution for this, too.
You can take a look at Bugfender, it's a product we have built to solve this problem. We have found that while developing an app there are a lot of issues that are not crashes, so we decided to make our own product to help us on this.
It's easy to integrate and you can get the devices logs. Our service works offline and online, we have spent a lot of time to make it reliable and easy to use.
Compared to other products, you don't need any crash to get the logs, you choose when you want them.