CoreData Best Practices

FROM : James Clause
DATE : Fri Apr 29 16:49:51 2005

I'd like some advice on the best way to use CoreData in various 
situations.  I'm trying to create a BibTeX manager.  The problem I'm 
facing is that BibTeX allows user defined fields and multiple 
authors.  The obvious way to handle this is to store multiple authors 
as an NSArray of NSStrings and the user defined fields in an 
NSDictionary.  However, these type aren't available as attributes in 
CoreData.  The best way I can think of to overcome this is to 
serialize dictionaries and arrays and store them as data attributes. 
This doesn't seem to be a solution and I wondered if anyone else had 
a better one.

Thanks,
~Jim