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H. Yi-Shan's avatar
H. Yi-Shan
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11 years ago

Getting deleted DBRecord information from Datastore sync:

I'm developing an iOS app with Datastore. How do I know records deleted from remote? I watch changes with observer (status.incoming) and call sync: and it return the changes. The deleted DBRecord...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

There's no way from the iOS Datastore SDK to access the fields of deleted records after they've been deleted.

Why don't you just use the record ID as the unique ID? That seems like a more robust solution in general. (For example, you get the guarantee that you won't have two records with the same record ID.)

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