Unhandled exception finding default Directory URL '+[NSPersistentContainer defaultDirectoryURL] Could not conjure up a useful location for writing persistent stores.'

CoreData: error:  Failed to create directory file:///Users/rick/Library/Application%20Support/Benchmarks: NSCocoaErrorDomain (513)
CoreData: fault: Unhandled exception finding default Directory URL '+[NSPersistentContainer defaultDirectoryURL] Could not conjure up a useful location for writing persistent stores.'

https://github.com/vanvoorden/2024-08-26

I am running into these errors when attempting to run a benchmark on a SwiftData context from the 2024-08-26 repo. The errors seem to be harmless… the benchmark continues without crashing on those unhandled exceptions.

https://github.com/vanvoorden/2024-08-02/

I seem to have no problem running against SwiftData from a different Swift Package Executable (2024-08-02). This package seems to build and run with no errors. This package also creates the expected directory under ~/Library/Application%20Support/2024-08-02.

I don't yet completely understand what is happening… but there seems to be some reason why Benchmarks is failing to create that extra directory under Application%20Support.

I can also run Benchmarks with no errors after I add the Application%20Support/Benchmarks directory manually from mac Finder.

The benchmarks seem to be running correctly even after printing those errors… so I am not sure if there is anything important to fix in the Benchmarks package for now.

import Benchmark
import CoreData

let benchmarks = {
  Benchmark("Benchmark") { benchmark in
    let _ = NSPersistentContainer.defaultDirectoryURL
  }
}

This crashes:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: '+[NSPersistentContainer defaultDirectoryURL] Could not conjure up a useful location for writing persistent stores.'
*** First throw call stack:
(
	0   CoreFoundation                      0x0000000189caa2ec __exceptionPreprocess + 176
	1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x000000018978e158 objc_exception_throw + 60
	2   CoreData                            0x00000001904d9034 __44+[NSPersistentContainer defaultDirectoryURL]_block_invoke + 0
	3   CoreData                            0x00000001905c3f74 $sSo21NSPersistentContainerC8CoreDataE19defaultDirectoryURL10Foundation0G0VvgZ + 40
	4   Benchmarks                          0x00000001047530e4 $s10Benchmarks10benchmarks9BenchmarkACCSgycvpfiAEycfU_yADcfU_ + 92
	5   Benchmarks                          0x0000000104703608 $s9Benchmark0A8ExecutorV3runySayAA0A6ResultVGA2ACF + 2640
	6   Benchmarks                          0x0000000104728f34 $s9Benchmark0A6RunnerV3runyyYaKFTY0_ + 6768
	7   Benchmarks                          0x0000000104725cb5 $s9Benchmark0A11RunnerHooksPAAE4mainyyYaFZTQ1_ + 1
	8   Benchmarks                          0x00000001047535a5 $sIetH_yts5Error_pIegHrzo_TR10async_MainTf3npf_nTQ0_ + 1
	9   libswift_Concurrency.dylib          0x00000002513d6149 _ZL22completeTaskAndReleasePN5swift12AsyncContextEPNS_10SwiftErrorE + 1
)
libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-package-manager/issues/6948

This might be another version of this error from SPM plug ins.

Building the SPM plug in with disable-sandbox seems to work around the errors… but I'm still not clear why a model context specified as an in-memory context needs a valid URL on the system to begin work.