Persistent History Tracking Kit
Helps you easily handle Core Data’s Persistent History Tracking
What’s This？
Use persistent history tracking to determine what changes have occurred in the store since the enabling of persistent history tracking. —— Apple Documentation
When Persistent History Tracking is enabled, your application will begin creating transactions for any changes that occur in Core Data Storage. Whether they come from application extensions, background contexts, or the main application.
Each target of your application can fetch the transactions that have occurred since a given date and merge them into the local storage. This way, you can keep up to date with changes made by other persistent storage coordinators and keep your storage up to date. After merging all transactions, you can update the merge date so that the next time you merge, you will only get the new transactions that have not yet been processed.
The Persistent History Tracking Kit will automate the above process for you.
How does persistent history tracking work?
Upon receiving a remote notification of Persistent History Tracking from Core Data, Persistent History Tracking Kit will do the following:
- Query the current author’s (current author) last merge transaction time
- Get new transactions created by other applications, application extensions, background contexts, etc. (all authors) in addition to this application since the date of the last merged transaction
- Merge the new transaction into the specified context (usually the current application’s view context)
- Update the current application’s merge transaction time
- Clean up transactions that have been merged by all applications
For more specific details on how this works, read 在 CoreData 中使用持久化历史跟踪 or Persistent History Tracking in Core Data .
Usage
// in Core Data Stack
import PersistentHistoryTrackingKit
init() {
container = NSPersistentContainer(name: "PersistentTrackBlog")
// Prepare your Container
let desc = container.persistentStoreDescriptions.first!
// Turn on persistent history tracking in persistentStoreDescriptions
desc.setOption(true as NSNumber,
forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey)
desc.setOption(true as NSNumber,
forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey)
container.loadPersistentStores(completionHandler: { _, _ in })
container.viewContext.transactionAuthor = "app1"
// after loadPersistentStores
let kit = PersistentHistoryTrackingKit(
container: container,
currentAuthor: "app1",
allAuthors: "app1,app2,app3",
userDefaults: userDefaults,
logLevel: 3,
)
}
Parameters
currentAuthor
The name of the author of the current application. The name is usually the same as the transaction name of the view context
container.viewContext.transactionAuthor = "app1"
allAuthors
The author name of all members managed by the Persistent History Tracking Kit.
Persistent History Tracking Kit should only be used to manage transactions generated by developer-created applications, application extensions, and backend contexts; other system-generated transactions (e.g. Core Data with CloudKit) are handled by the system itself.
For example, if your application author name is: “appAuthor” and your application extension author name is: “extensionAuthor”, then.
allAuthors: ["appAuthor", "extensionAuthor"],
For transactions generated in the backend context, the backend context should also have a separate author name if it is not set to auto-merge.
allAuthors: ["appAuthor", "extensionAuthor", "appBatchAuthor"],
batchAuthors
Some authors (such as background contexts for batch changes) only create transactions and do not merge and clean up transactions generated by other authors. You can speed up the cleanup of such transactions by setting them in batchAuthors.
batchAuthors: ["appBatchAuthor"],
Even if not set, these transactions will be automatically cleared after reaching maximumDuration.
maximumDuration
Normally, transactions are only cleaned up after they have been merged by all authors. However, in some cases, individual authors may not run for a long time or may not be implemented yet, causing transactions to remain in SQLite. In the long run, this can cause a performance degradation of the database.
By setting maximumDuration, Persistent History Tracking Kit will force the removal of transactions that have reached the set duration. The default setting is 7 days.
maximumDuration: 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
Performing cleanup on transactions does not harm the application’s data.
contexts
The context used for merging transactions, usually the application’s view context. By default, it is automatically set to the container’s view context.
contexts: [viewContext],
userDefaults
If an App Group is used, use the UserDefaults available for the group.
let appGroupUserDefaults = UserDefaults(suiteName: "group.com.yourGroup")!
userDefaults: appGroupUserDefaults,
cleanStrategy
Persistent History Tracking Kit currently supports three transaction cleanup strategies:
-
none
Merge only, no cleanup
-
byDuration
Set a minimum time interval between cleanups
-
byNotification
Set the minimum number of notifications between cleanups
// Each notification is cleaned up
cleanStrategy: .byNotification(times: 1),
// At least 60 seconds between cleanings
cleanStrategy: .byDuration(seconds: 60),
When the cleanup policy is set to none, cleanup can be performed at the right time by generating separate cleanup instances.
let kit = PersistentHistoryTrackingKit(
container: container,
currentAuthor: "app1",
allAuthors: "app1,app2,app3",
userDefaults: userDefaults,
cleanStrategy: .byNotification(times: 1),
logLevel: 3,
autoStart: false
)
let cleaner = kit.cleanerBuilder()
// Execute cleaner at the right time, for example when the application enters the background
clear()
uniqueString
The string prefix for the timestamp in UserDefaults.
logger
The Persistent History Tracking Kit provides default logging output. To export Persistent History Tracking Kit information through the logging system you are using, simply make your logging code conform to the PersistentHistoryTrackingKitLoggerProtocol.
public protocol PersistentHistoryTrackingKitLoggerProtocol {
func log(type: PersistentHistoryTrackingKitLogType, message: String)
}
struct MyLogger: PersistentHistoryTrackingKitLoggerProtocol {
func log(type: PersistentHistoryTrackingKitLogType, message: String) {
print("[\(type.rawValue.uppercased())] : message")
}
}
logger:MyLogger(),
logLevel
The output of log messages can be controlled by setting logLevel:
- 0 Turn off log output
- 1 Important status only
- 2 Detail information
autoStart
Whether to start the Persistent History Tracking Kit instance as soon as it is created.
During the execution of the application, the running state can be changed by start() or stop().
kit.start()
kit.stop()
Requirements
.iOS(.v13),
.macOS(.v10_15),
.macCatalyst(.v13),
.tvOS(.v13),
.watchOS(.v6)
Install
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/fatbobman/PersistentHistoryTrackingKit.git", from: "1.0.0")
]
License
This library is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
