Object not saving to database -- back4app issue?

[Max Tannone]

Trying to save an object to my database, cannot figure out where I am going wrong. 

message["fromUser"] = PFUser.current()

message["toUser"] = theRemoteUser

message["messageText"] = theMessage

message.saveInBackground(block: { (success, error) in

               

               if success {

                   

                   print("success!")

 

                   //the object has been saved

                   

               }

               

               else {

                   

                   print("error!")

                   

                   print(error)

                  

                   

               }

            })

Success is never reached, yet error prints out "nil".

Yet, strangely, one time out of dozens, the message actually DID save to the database. No changes in my code though. I wonder if something on the back4app end has to be reset or something using my app ID?

Thanks!

[Max Tannone]

wanted to add this at the top of the code:

var message = PFObject(className: "Message")

[casag...@back4app.com]

Hello Max,

It seems since that error is showing up, maybe the "message" is not receiving anything. Possibly you're not getting the class correctly so the object stays empty.

Best!

[Max Tannone]

I fixed the issue. I was trying to store user pointers incorrectly. I thought I could just them equal to a user object, but I had to manually create the pointer in code, and assign that instead.

message["toUser"] = PFObject(withoutDataWithClassName: "_User", objectId: theRemoteUser?.objectId)

Actually, you can set a user pointer column directly equal to a user, but only for PFUser.current()

var message = PFObject(className:"Message")

            

            message["fromUser"] = PFUser.current()

            

            message["toUser"] = PFObject(withoutDataWithClassName: "_User", objectId: theRemoteUser?.objectId)

            

            message["messageText"] = theMessage

[casag...@back4app.com]

I see,

Thanks for the feedback then!

Best!