Fetch Record Assets in CloudKit Using Swift - ios

Question

I am new to CloudKit and I am having trouble connecting the assets in my database to the ImageView and TextView in my app. In my CloudKit database, under record types, I created a record named "Companies". I then went to Public Data->Default Zone and then created a new instance of the record called "myCompany". In "myCompany" I have two assets, an image and a .txt file. I want to connect those assets to my app. I am not sure if I need to use CKQuery or what is the best approach. Any advice would be much appreciated. Below is what I have so far. Feel free to give feedback of what I have or if there's a better way, I would love to know. Thanks.
import UIKit
import CloudKit
class LearnViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var theImage: UIImageView!
#IBOutlet weak var theText: UITextView!
let myRecord = CKRecord(recordType: "Companies" )
var image: UIImage!
let database = CKContainer.defaultContainer().publicCloudDatabase
func loadCoverPhoto(completion:(photo: UIImage!) -> ()) {
dispatch_async(
dispatch_get_global_queue(
DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND, 0)){
var image: UIImage!
let coverPhoto = self.myRecord.objectForKey("Picture") as CKAsset!
if let asset = coverPhoto {
if let url = asset.fileURL {
let imageData = NSData(contentsOfFile: url.path!)!
image = UIImage(data: imageData)
}
}
completion(photo: image)
}
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
loadCoverPhoto() { photo in
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
self.theImage.image = photo
}
}

Answer 1

You could get the record directly if you know the recordId by performing a fetch like:
database.fetchRecordWithID(CKRecordID(recordName: recordId), completionHandler: {record, error in
Or if you don't know the ID you should query for the record with something like the code below. just create the right NSPredicate. A query can return more than 1 record.
var query = CKQuery(recordType: recordType, predicate: NSPredicate(value: true))
var operation = CKQueryOperation(query: query)
operation.recordFetchedBlock = { record in
// is this your record...
}
operation.queryCompletionBlock = { cursor, error in
self.handleCallback(error, errorHandler: {errorHandler(error: error)}, completionHandler: {
// ready fetching records
})
}
operation.resultsLimit = CKQueryOperationMaximumResults;
database.addOperation(operation)
In your case when using the fetchRecordWithID option the code would look like this:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
database.fetchRecordWithID(CKRecordID(recordName: recordId), completionHandler: {record, error in
self.myRecord = record
loadCoverPhoto() { photo in
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
self.theImage.image = photo
}
}
}
}