swift - iOS 9 - "attempt to delete and reload the same index path"

Question

This is an error:

CoreData: error: Serious application error. An exception was caught from the delegate of NSFetchedResultsController during a call to -controllerDidChangeContent:. attempt to delete and reload the same index path ( {length = 2, path = 0 - 0}) with userInfo (null)

This is my typical NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate:

func controllerWillChangeContent(controller: NSFetchedResultsController) {
    tableView.beginUpdates()
}

func controller(controller: NSFetchedResultsController, didChangeSection sectionInfo: NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo, atIndex sectionIndex: Int, forChangeType type: NSFetchedResultsChangeType) {

    let indexSet = NSIndexSet(index: sectionIndex)

    switch type {
    case .Insert:
        tableView.insertSections(indexSet, withRowAnimation: .Fade)
    case .Delete:
        tableView.deleteSections(indexSet, withRowAnimation: .Fade)
    case .Update:
        fallthrough
    case .Move:
        tableView.reloadSections(indexSet, withRowAnimation: .Fade)
    }
}

func controller(controller: NSFetchedResultsController, didChangeObject anObject: NSManagedObject, atIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath?, forChangeType type: NSFetchedResultsChangeType, newIndexPath: NSIndexPath?) {

    switch type {
    case .Insert:
        if let newIndexPath = newIndexPath {
            tableView.insertRowsAtIndexPaths([newIndexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
        }
    case .Delete:
        if let indexPath = indexPath {
            tableView.deleteRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
        }
    case .Update:
        if let indexPath = indexPath {
            tableView.reloadRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: .None)
        }
    case .Move:
        if let indexPath = indexPath {
            if let newIndexPath = newIndexPath {
                tableView.deleteRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
                tableView.insertRowsAtIndexPaths([newIndexPath], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
            }
        }
    }
}

func controllerDidChangeContent(controller: NSFetchedResultsController) {
    tableView.endUpdates()
}

in viewDidLoad():

private func setupOnceFetchedResultsController() {

    if fetchedResultsController == nil {
        let context = NSManagedObjectContext.MR_defaultContext()
        let fetchReguest = NSFetchRequest(entityName: "DBOrder")
        let dateDescriptor = NSSortDescriptor(key: "date", ascending: false)

        fetchReguest.predicate = NSPredicate(format: "user.identifier = %@", DBAppSettings.currentUser!.identifier )
        fetchReguest.sortDescriptors = [dateDescriptor]
        fetchReguest.fetchLimit = 10
        fetchedResultsController = NSFetchedResultsController(fetchRequest: fetchReguest, managedObjectContext: context, sectionNameKeyPath: "identifier", cacheName: nil)
        fetchedResultsController.delegate = self

        try! fetchedResultsController.performFetch()
    }
}

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in iOS 9 (which is still beta) and is also discussed in the Apple Developer Forum

• iOS 9 CoreData NSFetchedResultsController update causes blank rows in UICollectionView/UITableView

I can confirm the problem with the iOS 9 Simulator from Xcode 7 beta 3. I observed that for an updated managed object, the didChangeObject: delegate method is called twice: Once with the NSFetchedResultsChangeUpdate event and then again with the NSFetchedResultsChangeMove event (and indexPath == newIndexPath).

Adding an explicit check for indexPath != newIndexPath as suggested in the above thread seems to solve the problem:

        case .Move:
            if indexPath != newIndexPath {
                tableView.deleteRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath!], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
                tableView.insertRowsAtIndexPaths([newIndexPath!], withRowAnimation: .Fade)
        }