Re: ADC Core Data article

FROM : Dustin Voss
DATE : Wed Apr 06 02:18:25 2005

On 5 Apr, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Philip Mötteli wrote:
>

>>> Each entity definition in a managed object model requires the name
>>> of the entity and the name of the class used at runtime to represent
>>> that entity. By default, the class used is NSManagedObject, but the
>>> class may be either NSManagedObject or a subclass thereof.

>>
>> I read that phrase 5 times. Is that really true? Only subclasses of
>> NSManagedObject get managed persistency from Core Data?

>
> Trying to implement transparent persistence without a persistent
> subclass is.... challenging.


I imagine Philip was thinking that persistence would be integrated into
NSObject, like Key-Value Coding. But personally, I prefer having a
distinct super-class that I can drop in-place of NSObject. NSObject is
overburdened as it is. :)