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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 product entity to the Data Model


To store the information of different products sold to the customers, we have to add an entity with the name: Product to our application. Also, we need to define a relationship between the Customer and the Product entity. As a customer can purchase several products, there will be a one to many relationship between the Customer and the Product entity. Let us double-click the prob.xcdatamodel file from the Resources group to open the Xcode's data modeling tool. We find a Customer's entity (as shown in the following screenshot) already there that we created in Chapter 4, Designing Data Model and Building Data Objects for Customers.

We can see that the Customer entity contains three attributes of the String data type: name, emailid, and contactno that will be used for storing the customer's information. To add the Product entity to our data model follow the given steps:

  1. 1. Select the + (plus) button at the bottom of the Entity pane or choose Design ...

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