Is there an tutorial that shows how attribute validation works in Core Data?

Question

I'd like to play around with attribute value validation, but the documentation is pretty empty on this. Maybe there's an good article or tutorial out there?

Answer 1

Here is a fairly common validation to ensure you don't get nonsensical dates put into a timeStamp.

- (BOOL)validateTimeStamp:(id *)valueRef error:(NSError **)outError 
{
    NSDate *testDate=(NSDate *) valueRef;
    if ([testDate compare:self.minimumTimeStamp]==NSOrderedAscending) {
        // generate and return error so you can set a proper date
    }
    return YES;
}