Re: CoreData Best Practices

FROM : John Brownlow
DATE : Fri Apr 29 17:36:39 2005

The thing to do is create separate 'author' entities and then add a
to-many relationship to the object in question. Let CoreData handle it.
It takes a bit of getting used to working with objects at this
granularity but it is worth it in the end.

On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:49 AM, James Clause wrote:

> 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.

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