Question of UIWebView and Core Data

Question

I want to develop a news App such as Engadge etc. The news had loaded from the server, and now I'll save the news included body text and pictures into database(Core Data). Can UIWebView read the datas from Core Data directly, and shows in UIWebview?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes and no. You can store the HTML content in the database (CoreData), to show an article you use: loadHTMLString:baseURL: of UIWebView to show the textual content. The images however is probably best stored outside the database as file because you will have to point the image references in your HTML to an actual file.

You could store the images as BLOBs but then you need to pull those blobs and write as files later for UIWebView to be able to pick them up.

I think the easiest way is to store images as files and but place references to them inside CoreData. That way you can also delete them accordingly later on.

Answer 2

If by directly, you mean without any glue code, then no, not on iOS as of present.

You could however use Core data to store text and image objects as desired. It might not be the best idea to use a UIWebView, but to answer your question, it's definitely possible, and in fact quite easy to do so.