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Core Data iOS Essentials

You're reading from  Core Data iOS Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690942
Pages 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Core Data iOS Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Overview 2. Understanding Core Data 3. Understanding Objective-C Protocol and Table View 4. Designing a Data Model and Building Data Objects for Customers 5. Creating, Listing, and Deleting Names of Customers 6. Creating, Listing, Displaying, and Deleting Records of Customers 7. Updating and Searching Records of Customers 8. Entering, Saving, Listing, and Deleting the Records of the Products Sold to the Customers 9. Entering, Displaying, and Deleting the Stock 10. Editing the Stock Information 11. Displaying the Products for Sale and Updating the Stock Appendix

Using Predicate Builder for creating a search criterion


Xcode provides a visual tool: Predicate Builder that helps in creating predicates (queries for extracting rows from entities) for us. Let us try using the Predicate builder to display all customer names that contain characters 'Ca'.

So, let us open our Data Model by double-clicking the prob.xcdatamodel file in the Resources group in the Xcode Project window. Xcode's data modeling tool will open and we find our Customer entity in it. From the Property pane, select the + (plus) button, a menu with several options such as: Add Attribute, Add Fetched Property, Add Relationship, and Add Fetch Request will popup. Out of these four options, Add Fetched Property and Add Fetch Request can be used for building predicates. Let us see them one by one.

Fetched properties

A fetched property is a type of attribute that associates a managed object with other managed objects based on the specified condition. That is, the predicate to define the objects...

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