Error: 101 object not found for update - parse-platform

Question

I've got the follwing parse.com cloud code
Parse.Cloud.afterSave("Action", function (request) {
var BookStatus = Parse.Object.extend("BookStatus");
var Book = Parse.Object.extend("Book");
var book = new Book();
var actionType = request.object.get("actionTypePointer").id;
var bookId = request.object.get("bookPointer").id;
var queryBook = new Parse.Query("Book");
var newBookStatus;
queryBook.get(bookId,{
success: function (gottenBook) {
newBookStatus = "idOfTheBookStatus";
book.id = bookId;
book.set("bookStatus", new BookStatus({id: newBookStatus}));
gottenBook.set("bookStatus", new BookStatus({id: newBookStatus}));
//OPTION 1
gottenBook.save(null,{
success: function(data) {
console.log("Bookstatus updated1");
},
error: function (data,error) {
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
//OPTION 2
book.save(null,{
success: function(data) {
console.log("Bookstatus updated2");
},
error: function (data,error) {
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
},
error: function (object, error) {
// The object was not retrieved successfully.
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
OPTION1
I try to save the queried book after setting the bookStatus to the returned book.
OPTION2
I try to save the new book object after setting the book.Id
book.id = bookId;
book.set("bookStatus", new BookStatus({id: newBookStatus}));
However with any of the 2 options I end up getting in the parse.com logs:
Error: 101 object not found for update
Error: 101 object not found for update
Any idea of what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
--EDIT
New implementation with fetch:
Parse.Cloud.afterSave("Action", function (request) {
var BookStatus = Parse.Object.extend("BookStatus");
var Book = Parse.Object.extend("Book");
var book = new Book();
var actionType = request.object.get("actionTypePointer").id;
var bookId = request.object.get("bookPointer").id;
book.id = bookId;
console.log("before fetch book.id" + book.id);
var newBookStatus;
book.fetch({
success: function (book) {
newBookStatus = "XMFkXS9NVv";
book.set("bookStatus", new BookStatus({id: newBookStatus}));
console.log("book" + book);
console.log("book.id" + book.id);
console.log("book.isValid()" + book.isValid());
book.save(null,{
success: function(data) {
console.log("Book Status updated to:" +newBookStatus);
},
error: function (data,error) {
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
},
error: function (object, error) {
// The object was not retrieved successfully.
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
});
With result:
Input: {"place":{"__type":"GeoPoint","latitude":41.354643806134625,"longitude":2.121594674804572},"bookLocationDescription":"sad","bookPointer":{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Book","objectId":"kWcALge4az"},"actionTypePointer":{"__type":"Pointer","className":"ActionType","objectId":"kJC954w9iO"},"userPointer":{"__type":"Pointer","className":"_User","objectId":"6xpiAHX9Ju"},"createdAt":"2013-05-16T13:59:33.810Z","updatedAt":"2013-05-16T13:59:33.810Z","objectId":"PwlXhKL51l","ACL":{"6xpiAHX9Ju":{"read":true,"write":true},"*":{"read":true}}}
Result: Success
I2013-05-15T20:52:19.170Z] before fetch book.idc1iKxw3NLD
I2013-05-15T20:52:19.273Z] book[object Object]
I2013-05-15T20:52:19.273Z] book.idc1iKxw3NLD
I2013-05-15T20:52:19.273Z] book.isValid()true
I2013-05-15T20:52:19.325Z] Error: 101 object not found for update

Answer 1

Your afterSave hook is overwriting the fetched Book's object id. Even if you're setting the same object id on it, the object now thinks it's dirty and it's no longer a valid reference.
Avoid this by using the book returned by get() and not updating it's id:
Parse.Cloud.afterSave("Action", function (request) {
var BookStatus = Parse.Object.extend("BookStatus");
var Book = Parse.Object.extend("Book");
var book = new Book();
var actionType = request.object.get("actionTypePointer").id;
var bookId = request.object.get("bookPointer").id;
var queryBook = new Parse.Query("Book");
var newBookStatus;
queryBook.get(bookId,{
success: function (book) {
newBookStatus = "idOfTheBookStatus";
book.set("bookStatus", new BookStatus({id: newBookStatus}));
book.save(null,{
success: function(data) {
console.log("Bookstatus updated1");
},
error: function (data,error) {
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
},
error: function (object, error) {
// The object was not retrieved successfully.
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
});
Since you already know the id for this book, instead of using a query, you can create a pointer and fetch it directly.
Final afterSave hook:
Parse.Cloud.afterSave("Action", function (request) {
var BookStatus = Parse.Object.extend("BookStatus");
var Book = Parse.Object.extend("Book");
var book = new Book();
var actionType = request.object.get("actionTypePointer").id;
var bookId = request.object.get("bookPointer").id;
book.id = bookId;
var newBookStatus;
book.fetch({
success: function (book) {
newBookStatus = "idOfTheBookStatus";
book.set("bookStatus", new BookStatus({id: newBookStatus}));
book.save(null,{
success: function(data) {
console.log("Bookstatus updated1");
},
error: function (data,error) {
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
},
error: function (object, error) {
// The object was not retrieved successfully.
// error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
console.log("Error: " + error.code + " " + error.message);
}
});
});

Answer 2

Here's how I did it after some running around
ParseCrashReporting.enable(this);
// Enable Local Datastore.
Parse.enableLocalDatastore(this);
// Add your initialization code here
Parse.initialize(this, "*******", "******");
ParseUser.enableAutomaticUser();
ParseACL defaultACL = new ParseACL();
ParseACL.setDefaultACL(defaultACL, true);
// save the installation
ParseInstallation.getCurrentInstallation().saveInBackground();
More info on the issue in my blog post here:
http://aprogrammersday.blogspot.com/2015/02/fix-parse-101-error-object-not-found.html

Answer 3

Whilst looking for this error I found this thread the most useful. I wanted to add that object not found for get can also essentially mean foreign key reference not found.
The not found for get error can be incredibly unhelpful; for me it wasn't even giving a line number where the error was occurring, the error message is very vague and I could not find reference to the phrase in any of the documentation.
If you are getting this error, you will find a lot of reference to permissions issues, but if you are already using the master key then you need to find the object that is being referenced by a foreign key on your selected object.