Restkit "*** Assertion failure in -[RKManagedObjectMapping initWithEntity:]"

Question

i'm getting this assertion failure at run time when initializing Restkit:

2011-11-09 08:00:50.817 myapp[32572:207] application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
2011-11-09 08:00:50.820 myapp[32572:207] D app:myappAppDelegate.m:179 Initializing Restkit...
2011-11-09 08:00:50.889 myapp[32572:207] D restkit.network.queue:RKRequestQueue.m:214 Queue <RKRequestQueue: 0x742bde0> has been unsuspended
2011-11-09 08:00:50.889 myapp[32572:207] D restkit.network.queue:RKRequestQueue.m:48 Shared queue initialized: <RKRequestQueue: 0x742bde0>
2011-11-09 08:00:50.890 myapp[32572:207] D restkit.network.queue:RKRequestQueue.m:207 Queue <RKRequestQueue: 0x742bde0> has been suspended
2011-11-09 08:00:50.890 myapp[32572:207] D restkit.network:RKClient.m:250 Base URL changed for client <RKClient: 0x7136a00>, suspending main queue until reachability to host 'localhost' can be determined
2011-11-09 08:00:50.973 myapp[32572:207] D app:myappAppDelegate.m:190 Begining object mapping...
2011-11-09 08:00:50.974 myapp[32572:207] *** Assertion failure in -[RKManagedObjectMapping initWithEntity:], /Users/alex/Development/myapp/Libraries/RestKit/Code/CoreData/RKManagedObjectMapping.m:32
sharedlibrary apply-load-rules all

this is the code:

// RestKit
#import <RestKit/RestKit.h> 
#import <RestKit/CoreData/CoreData.h>
#import <RestKit/Support/JSON/JSONKit/RKJSONParserJSONKit.h>
#import "DBManagedObjectCache.h"
#import "DBUser.h"

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {   
...
RKLogDebug(@"Initializing Restkit...");


RKObjectManager* objectManager = [RKObjectManager objectManagerWithBaseURL:@"http://localhost:8888"];  
//objectManager.router = [[RKDynamicRouter new] autorelease];  
//manager.router = router;  

objectManager.objectStore = [[[RKManagedObjectStore alloc] initWithStoreFilename:@"mydb.sqlite"] autorelease];
objectManager.objectStore.managedObjectCache = [[DBManagedObjectCache new] autorelease];

RKLogDebug(@"Begining object mapping...");
RKManagedObjectMapping* userMapping = [RKManagedObjectMapping mappingForClass:[DBUser class]];
RKLogDebug(@"Begining object mapping... 1");
userMapping.primaryKeyAttribute = @"userID";
userMapping.setDefaultValueForMissingAttributes = YES; // clear out any missing attributes (token on logout)

...
}

this is where it fails in RKManagedObjectMapping.m:

- (id)initWithEntity:(NSEntityDescription*)entity {
NSAssert(entity, @"Cannot initialize an RKManagedObjectMapping without an entity. Maybe you want RKObjectMapping instead?");
... 

any ideas? thanks !!!! kky

Answer 1

Thanks tegbains for the introduction to restkit, what actually resolved the issue is creating the entity DBUser in the DataModel.xcdatamodel :)