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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

Building data objects for the Customer entity


To build the data objects (classes) for the entity defined in the data model, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Click on the entity in Data Model Editor and then go to File | New File.

  2. 2. We get a dialog box to choose a template for the new file. Select Cocoa Touch Class from under the iOS heading in the left pane and select the Managed Object Class template, as shown in the next screenshot followed by Next button. This template is visible only when the editing pane is currently showing a Core Data model and is the active pane.

  3. 3. We get a dialog box that prompts for the location of generating managed object class, as shown in the following screenshot. The name of the subclass is based on the Entity name, so we will not be prompted to provide name for the subclass. Keeping the values as default, let's click on the Next button.

  4. 4. Check the Customer entity in the dialog box that appears, as shown in the next screenshot (a subclass of NSManagedObject...

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