Re: SQLite command line tool compat with Core Data?

FROM : Scott Ellsworth
DATE : Sat Apr 30 00:38:07 2005

On Apr 29, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

> On Apr 29, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Scott Ellsworth wrote:
>

>> Has anyone experimented with/built a version of the sqlite command 
>> line tool that is compatible with the data stores built by Core 
>> Data?  I was not sure whether the versions had been changed.
>>

>
> The SQLite build included with Tiger is compatible with SQLite 
> datafiles written by any standard build of sqlite3.  Core Data 
> uses the stock SQLite3 API and, as such, you can poke at Core Data 
> written SQL stores with the sqlite3 command line tool.


Cool.  I was looking for a good way to unit test one of my data 
generators.

> With that said, it is not supported nor encouraged that developers 
> will go and access the data store directly.  In particular, 
> writing data into the file can be particularly dangerous.


Fair 'nough.

Scott