Saving PFObject NSCoding

Question

My Problem: saveInBackground isn't working.

The Reason It's not working: I'm saving PFObjects stored in an NSArray to file using NSKeyedArchiving. The way I do that is by implementing NSCoding via this library. For some reason unknown to me, several other fields are being added and are set to NULL. I have a feeling that this is screwing up the API call to saveInBackground. When I call saveInBackground on the first set of objects (before NSKeyedArchiving) saveInBackground works just fine. However, when I call it on the second object (after NSKeyedArchiving) it does not save. Why is this?

Save

[NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject:_myArray toFile:[self returnFilePathForType:@"myArray"]];

Retrieval

_myArray = (NSMutableArray *)[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:
                                             [self returnFilePathForType:@"myArray"]];

Object before NSArchiving

2014-04-16 16:34:56.267 myApp[339:60b]
<UserToMessage:bXHfPM8sDs:(null)> {
    from = "<PFUser:sdjfa;lfj>";
    messageText = "<MessageText:asdffafs>";
    read = 0;
    to = "<PFUser:asdfadfd>";
}
2014-04-16 16:34:56.841 myApp[339:60b]
<UserToMessage:bXHsdafdfs:(null)> {
    from = "<PFUser:eIasdffoF3gi>";
    messageText = "<MessageText:asdffafs>";
    read = 1;
    to = "<PFUser:63sdafdf5>";
}

Object after NSArchiving

<UserToMessage:92GGasdffVQLa:(null)> {
    ACL = "<null>";
    createdAt = "<null>";
    from = "<PFUser:eIQsadffF3gi>";
    localId = "<null>";
    messageText = "<MessageText:EudsaffdHpc>";
    objectId = "<null>";
    parseClassName = "<null>";
    read = 0;
    saveDelegate = "<null>";
    to = "<PFUser:63spasdfsxNp5>";
    updatedAt = "<null>";
}

2014-04-16 16:37:46.527 myApp[352:60b]
<UserToMessage:92GadfQLa:(null)> {
    ACL = "<null>";
    createdAt = "<null>";
    from = "<PFUser:eIQsadffF3gi>";
    localId = "<null>";
    messageText = "<MessageText:EuTndasHpc>";
    objectId = "<null>";
    parseClassName = "<null>";
    read = 1;
    saveDelegate = "<null>";
    to = "<PFUser:63spPsadffp5>";
    updatedAt = "<null>";
}

Update Using Florent's PFObject Category:

PFObject+MyPFObject_NSCoding.h

#import <Parse/Parse.h>

@interface PFObject (MyPFObject_NSCoding)

-(void) encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *) encoder;
-(id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *) aDecoder;
@end

@interface PFACL (extensions)
-(void) encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *) encoder;
-(id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *) aDecoder;
@end


 PFObject+MyPFObject_NSCoding.m

#import "PFObject+MyPFObject_NSCoding.h"
@implementation PFObject (MyPFObject_NSCoding)
#pragma mark - NSCoding compliance
#define kPFObjectAllKeys @"___PFObjectAllKeys"
#define kPFObjectClassName @"___PFObjectClassName"
#define kPFObjectObjectId @"___PFObjectId"
#define kPFACLPermissions @"permissionsById"
-(void) encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *) encoder{

    // Encode first className, objectId and All Keys
    [encoder encodeObject:[self className] forKey:kPFObjectClassName];
    [encoder encodeObject:[self objectId] forKey:kPFObjectObjectId];
    [encoder encodeObject:[self allKeys] forKey:kPFObjectAllKeys];
    for (NSString * key in [self allKeys]) {
        [encoder  encodeObject:self[key] forKey:key];
    }


}
-(id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *) aDecoder{

    // Decode the className and objectId
    NSString * aClassName  = [aDecoder decodeObjectForKey:kPFObjectClassName];
    NSString * anObjectId = [aDecoder decodeObjectForKey:kPFObjectObjectId];


    // Init the object
    self = [PFObject objectWithoutDataWithClassName:aClassName objectId:anObjectId];

    if (self) {
        NSArray * allKeys = [aDecoder decodeObjectForKey:kPFObjectAllKeys];
        for (NSString * key in allKeys) {
            id obj = [aDecoder decodeObjectForKey:key];
            if (obj) {
                self[key] = obj;
            }

        }
    }
    return self;
}
@end

Answer 1

I have created a very simple workaround that requires no change the above NSCoding Libraries:

PFObject *tempRelationship = [PFObject objectWithoutDataWithClassName:@"relationship" objectId:messageRelationship.objectId];
        [tempRelationship setObject:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES] forKey:@"read"];
        [tempRelationship saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError *error) {
            if (succeeded)
                NSLog(@"Success");
            else
                NSLog(@"Error");
        }];

What we're doing here is creating a temporary object with the same objectId, and saving it. This is a working solution that does not create a duplicate of the object on the server. Thanks to everyone who has helped out.