CoreData: error: Failed to call designated initializer on NSManagedObject class 'SCTrack'

Question

Hate to ask this question because there seems to be a bunch of other similar ones and but I still can't see what is wrong with mine after going through most of the answers.

I have two VCs, VC1 contains a list of songs fetched from a music service. VC2 contains a list of songs picked from VC1; VC2 is basically a playlist.

I've set up my entity name and class to match: SCTrack. Here is my SCTrack.h:

@interface SCTrack : NSManagedObject
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString* title;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString* stream_url;

SCTrack.m:

#import "SCTrack.h"
@implementation SCTrack

@dynamic title;
@dynamic stream_url;

-(instancetype) initWithDictionary: (NSDictionary*) SCTrackDict {
self = [self init];
if (self) {
    self.title = SCTrackDict[@"title"];
    self.stream_url = SCTrackDict[@"stream_url"];

}
return self;
}

+(NSMutableArray *) parseJSONData: (NSData *) JSONData {
NSError* error;
NSMutableArray* SCTrackArray = [NSMutableArray new];

NSArray *JSONArray= [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:JSONData options:0 error: &error];
if ([JSONArray isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
    for (NSDictionary* trackDict in JSONArray) {
        SCTrack* trackObject = [[SCTrack alloc]initWithDictionary:trackDict];
        [SCTrackArray addObject:trackObject];
    }
}
return SCTrackArray;
}

@end

My AppDelegate.m

 UITabBarController* tabBar = (UITabBarController*) self.window.rootViewController;
SCTrackListVC *SCVC = (SCTrackListVC*) [[tabBar viewControllers]objectAtIndex:2];

SCVC.managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext;
return YES;

In my VC1.m

-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
self.selectedTrack = self.SCTrackList[indexPath.row];
self.selectedTrackRow = indexPath.row;

self.selectedTrack = [[SCTrack alloc]initWithEntity:[NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"SCTrack" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext]insertIntoManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];

NSError* error;
NSManagedObjectContext *context = self.managedObjectContext;
if (![context save:&error]) {
    NSLog(@"Error! %@", error);
}

//This is the other way I tried it _selectedTrack = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"SCTrack" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];

In my VC2.m

-(NSFetchedResultsController*) fetchedResultController {
if (_fetchedResultController != nil) {
    return _fetchedResultController;
}

NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *SCTrackEntity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"SCTrack" inManagedObjectContext:[self managedObjectContext]];
[fetchRequest setEntity:SCTrackEntity];



//    NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"title" ascending:YES];
//    [fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil]];

_fetchedResultController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest managedObjectContext:[self managedObjectContext] sectionNameKeyPath:nil cacheName:nil];

_fetchedResultController.delegate = self;

return _fetchedResultController;
}

This is the error I get: CoreData: error: Failed to call designated initializer on NSManagedObject class 'SCTrack'

Very new to Core Data. Been at this for a few hours now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Answer 1

The designated initialiser for NSManaged Object is initWithEntity: insertIntoManagedObjectContext:. Change

SCTrack* trackObject = [[SCTrack alloc]initWithDictionary:trackDict];

to

SCTrack *trackObject = [[SCTrack alloc]initWithEntity:entity insertIntoManagedObjectContext:context];