Core Data: Could not cast value of type 'MyType_MyType_2' to MyType

Question

I have an Objective-C model class MyType. This class is used in Swift code:

NSEntityDescription.insertNewObjectForEntityForName("MyType", inManagedObjectContext: context) as! MyType 

The as! cast results in the error message

Core Data: Could not cast value of type 'MyType_MyType_2' (0x7be99a30) to MyType (0xf33db74). 

If I cast it as NSManagedObject it works. When I print the result, I can nevertheless see, that it is an actual instance of MyType:

<MyType: 0x7ae06d50> (entity: MyType; id: 0x7aeba6d0 <x-coredata:///MyType/t957F2860-85F8-46E0-B6D6-4D1DF6C4EC613> ; data: {      ...the fields... }) 

What is happening here? And where does the name MyType_MyType_2 come from?

Answer 1

When I had this issue, it was because I had forgotten to set the "class" on the entity. This is what I came up with:

1. Click on .xcdatamodelId file in your file structure/project navigator pane (far left).
2. Select the entity that you are having issues with.
3. In the Utilities pane (far right), look for the icon that looks like a 1997 cell phone, the Data Model Inspector.
4. Under the entity settings, you should see two fields, "Name" and "Class" - set up "Class" with the name of the class you are using (typically the same as "Name").

You'll even notice before you follow these steps that the default "class" is NSObject, reflecting the error message. I found some programatic ways to do this too, but this seemed like the simplest/quickest solution.

I should note that my model WAS written in Swift, so I did have to add the @objc(Entity) interoperability reference mentioned by @zellb. But that shouldn't make a difference in the solution as long as you are doing that part properly (and that would cause a different unrelated error from my understanding).