I've understood that SwiftData is not abled to share the whole content of a cloudkit database.
So I'm trying to rewrite everything. Does someone knows id Sharing is coming on SwiftData at WWDC 26?
Anyway, can someone can point me an example a a configured coredata stack that share all its content with other icloud users (with sharing pane and accept invitation code).
At this step, on the owner side, I see some data in the default zone of my private container but nothing is visible on the shared zone. Maybe I don't understand where and when I should check shared data in cloudkit console. Need Help also here.
See below by configuration stack:
// Core Data container
public lazy var container: NSPersistentContainer = {
switch delegate.usage() {
case .preview : return previewContainer()
case .local : return localContainer()
case .cloudKit : return cloudKitContainer()
}
}()
private func cloudKitContainer() -> NSPersistentContainer {
let modelURL = delegate.modelURL()
let modelName = modelURL.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
guard let model = NSManagedObjectModel(contentsOf: modelURL) else {
fatalError("Could not load Core Data model from \(modelURL)")
}
let container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(
name: modelName,
managedObjectModel: model
)
let groupIdentifier = AppManager.shared.groupIdentifier
guard let appGroupURL = FileManager.default.containerURL (
forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier: groupIdentifier
) else {
fatalError("App Group not found: \(groupIdentifier)")
}
// MARK: - Private Store Configuration
let privateStoreURL = appGroupURL.appendingPathComponent("\(modelName).sqlite")
let privateStoreDescription = NSPersistentStoreDescription(url: privateStoreURL)
// Persistent history tracking (MANDATORY)
privateStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey)
privateStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey)
// CloudKit options for private database
// Core Data automatically uses the default zone: com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.zone
let privateCloudKitOptions = NSPersistentCloudKitContainerOptions(containerIdentifier: delegate.cloudKitIdentifier())
privateCloudKitOptions.databaseScope = .private
privateStoreDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions = privateCloudKitOptions
// MARK: - Shared Store Configuration
guard let sharedStoreDescription = privateStoreDescription.copy() as? NSPersistentStoreDescription else {
fatalError("Create shareDesc error")
}
// The shared store receives zones that others share with us via CloudKit's shared database
sharedStoreDescription.url = appGroupURL.appendingPathComponent("\(modelName)-shared.sqlite")
// Persistent history tracking (MANDATORY)
sharedStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey)
sharedStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey)
// CloudKit options for shared database
// This syncs data from CloudKit shared zones when we accept share invitations
let sharedCloudKitOptions = NSPersistentCloudKitContainerOptions(containerIdentifier: delegate.cloudKitIdentifier())
sharedCloudKitOptions.databaseScope = .shared
sharedStoreDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions = sharedCloudKitOptions
// Configure both stores
// Private store: com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.zone in private database
// Shared store: Receives shared zones we're invited to
container.persistentStoreDescriptions = [privateStoreDescription, sharedStoreDescription]
container.loadPersistentStores { storeDescription, error in
if let error = error as NSError? {
fatalError("DB init error:\(error.localizedDescription)")
} else if let cloudKitContiainerOptions = storeDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions {
switch cloudKitContiainerOptions.databaseScope {
case .private:
self._privatePersistentStore = container.persistentStoreCoordinator.persistentStore(for: privateStoreDescription.url!)
case .shared:
self._sharedPersistentStore = container.persistentStoreCoordinator.persistentStore(for: sharedStoreDescription.url!)
default:
break
}
}
let scope = storeDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions?.databaseScope == .shared ? "shared" : "private"
print("✅ \(scope) store loaded at: \(storeDescription.url?.path ?? "unknown")")
}
// Auto-merge
container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true
container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicy
do {
try container.viewContext.setQueryGenerationFrom(.current)
} catch {
fatalError("Fail to pin viewContext to the current generation:\(error)")
}
return container
}
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
iCloud & Data
Tags:
CloudKit
Core Data
CloudKit Console
SwiftData