SaveEventually offline behavior

Question

The app I am currently developing requires offline functionality. Unfortunately in the last few days we tried to use the app with no connection and we noticed something strange. When we try to use saveEventually we see the following debug trace in the log:

2014-07-19 18:00:00.079 BallisticBall[2371:8837] Error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0x15dbc500 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=api.parse.com/2/create, NSErrorFailingURLKey=api.parse.com/2/create, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline., NSUnderlyingError=0x1ba79d20 "The Internet connection appears to be offline."} (Code: 100, Version: 1.2.18) 2014-07-19 18:00:00.082 BallisticBall[2371:5907] Attempt at runEventually command timed out. Waiting 600.000000 seconds. 5 retries remaining.

I waited for ten minutes and a new entry appeared in the log:

Error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 "The Internet connection appears to be offline." UserInfo=0x15dce680 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=api.parse.com/2/create, NSErrorFailingURLKey=api.parse.com/2/create, NSLocalizedDescription=The Internet connection appears to be offline., NSUnderlyingError=0x15ddfc50 "The Internet connection appears to be offline."} (Code: 100, Version: 1.2.18) 2014-07-19 18:10:00.103 BallisticBall[2371:5907] Attempt at runEventually command timed out. Waiting 600.000000 seconds. 4 retries remaining.

Is this the expected behavior? If users are running the app for longer than one hour, what will happen after the last attempt? Will the record be discarded or saved in a different way?

Answer 1

SaveEventually works also when you are offline, also refer to documentation "Saving Objects Offline" , you may also test it by being offline and after saving objects you can find them in application directory structure (Library/Private Documents/Parse/Command Cache), you will notice every unsaved object is there as a file waiting to be dispatched when you are back online.