awakeFromInsert called twice with nested contexts

Question

This project uses Mogenerator and Magical Record. I have tracked down a bug to the fact that awakeFromInsert is getting called twice. Once for each of my contexts I

Answer 1

Open to much better solutions!

I wish! Would have been easy enough for apple to not invoke awakeFromInsert, or to at least provide a flag that's true in the context of a "parentProcessSaveRequest." If you look at the call stack for the not-first calls to awakeFromInsert, the stack always contains parentProcessSaveRequest.

Here's some terrible code proving as much:

- (void) awakeFromInsert 
{
    [super awakeFromInsert];

    NSArray* stackArray = [NSThread callStackSymbols];
    for (NSString* method in stackArray)
    {
        if ([method rangeOfString:@"_parentProcessSaveRequest"].location != NSNotFound)
        {
            NSLog(@"Parent insert %@",self.objectID);
            return;
        }        
    }
    NSLog(@"First insert %@",self.objectID);
    // Initialize here

}

And the log output -- the objectId stays the same:

2014-05-19 20:53:52.964 myApp[1891:a01f] First insert 0x6000000326c0 
2014-05-19 20:53:53.531 myApp[1891:303] Parent insert 0xdca8000eb 
2014-05-19 20:53:53.537 myApp[1891:303] Parent insert 0xdca8000eb 

Seems to work for saving to any of the nested contexts that I have, ugly as it is.

Unfortunately I cant figure any reasonable way to determine whether awakeFromInsert is being called in the context of a parentProcessSaveRequest. Come on, Apple! Give us a flag here.