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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

Adding the MasterProduct entity to the Data Model


We need an extra entity to store the information of different products that a vendor is supposed to sell through this application. The information of master product includes product name, price, quantity in hand, and product image, so the entity that we are going to create will consist of four attributes: itemname, price, quantity, and image. The steps for adding the MasterProduct entity are as follows:

  1. 1. Let us open the Xcode's Data Modeling tool by double-clicking the prob.xcdatamodel file from the Resources group in Xcode Project window.

  2. 2. To add a new entity to our data model, select the + (plus) button at the bottom of the Entity pane or choose Design | Data Model | Add Entity from the menu bar. A blank entity (by default name: Entity) will be added to our data model, which we will rename to MasterProduct. Automatically, a subclass of NSManagedObject will be created for our MasterProduct entity.

  3. 3. To add attributes to our MasterProduct...

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