Re: When to use key-value coding to get values vs. accessors

FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Thu Nov 01 22:04:07 2007

On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Paul Bruneau wrote:

> Not looking for an in-depth explanation (I should be able to find/
> understand the docs once I get tipped in the right direction), but 
> can someone briefly hint to me the reason Apple uses key-value 
> coding in this example code:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/NSPersistentDocumentTutorial/03_CustomClass/chapter_4_section_3.html
>

Because, for brevity, the tutorial didn't show the implementation of 
the custom accessors.

For current best practice, see <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Articles/cdAccessorMethods.html
>.

Feel free to file an enhancement request to ensure this is covered in 
an update to 10.5 for that tutorial.

mmalc