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Mohammed E.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Sync API and caching

Hello, I'm using the sync API to upload and download a drawn image across iOS devices. I've added a file system observer to respond to any file changes. However the API caching of the image seems ...
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Mohammed E.'s avatar
Mohammed E.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Alright, so I wasn't aware of how update doesn't block until the file downloads, so I added an observer should newerStatus not be nil and once download progress was at 1.0 I called update and surely enough DBFile now references the proper version of the file. Hope this helps someone in the future.

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