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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

Key value coding (KVC)


The Core Data uses KVC to store and retrieve data from its managed objects. NSManagedObject supports the key value methods valueForKey: and setValue:forKey: for setting and retrieving attribute values from the managed object respectively.

Key value methods

The two key value methods that are widely used for setting and retrieving values of the attributes of the managed object are explained in the following sections.

The -valueForKey: method

The method -valueForKey: is a generic accessor to retrieve the specified attribute value from a managed object.

For example, let's say we have a managed object (Customer) and it has an attribute called name; we can obtain the value of the name attribute with the following:

NSString *custName = [managedObject valueForKey:@"name" ];

The value of the attribute name is retrieved from the managed object and is assigned to the NSString instance custName.

Similarly, the code used in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method in the RootViewController...

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