core-data

Xcode- can someone help regarding how to add pics into coredata

hi i want to add images into my coredata which must be fetched using a table view display..im VERY VERY VERY new to xcode coding..can someone plsss help...ive set up coredata and all other finctionalities are working..just someone tel me from scratch how to do wat i want to do.. ...

AND NSPedicate on Core Data relationships

I'm having trouble compounding NSPredicate with AND, although using OR works fine. Imagine 2 entities, Doctor and Patient. Doctors can have many patients and patients many doctors. I want to find doctors that, say, have both person1 and person2 as patients. I expected this to work but it returns none. NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPre...

Can we use union of two sqlite databases with same tables for Core Data?

Hi All, I have an iPhone Core Data app with a pre-populated sqlite "baseline" database. Can I add a second smaller sqlite database with the same tables as my pre-populated "baseline" database but with additional / complementary data such that Core Data will happily union the data from both databases and, ultimately, present to me as if ...

displaying in a UITableView CoreData objects ordered in a Set

Hello, I have difficulties displaying objects coming from CoreData in a tableView. I have 2 sorts of entities : Sample and SampleList. What is important to know is that a SampleList has an attribute sampleSet which is a set of samples (entity of Sample) First I succeeded in displaying every SampleList. Here is viewDidLoad: NSFetchRequ...

The NSPersistentStoreCoordinator 'persist' across app updates?

Hello, I know it should persist if my Core Data Model has not changed, but how safe it is ? I'm an inhouse developer and we have 20 iPods with some information there, entered by our users. Now there's some bug that this info can't be exported, so we have to install a new update and export that information. We are not going to change t...

NSMagedObjectContext, threads and NSFechedResultsController

Dear iphone developers, Core Data newbie speaking here. In my application I have two NSManagedObjectContext that refer to that same NSPersistentStorageController. One ManagedObjectContext (c1) is in the main thread --created when I create a NSFetchedResultsController -- and the second ManagedObjectContext (c2) created in a second thr...

Backwards compatibility when using Core Data

Could anybody shed some light as to why is my app crashing with the following error on iPhone OS 2.2.1 dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSPredicate Referenced from: /var/mobile/Applications/456F243F-468A-4969-9BB7-A4DF993AE89C/AppName.app/AppName Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Foundation I have w...

iPhone app store approval - coredata design change

I created an app, uploaded to app store and approved by app store as well. Its ready for download. The app is based on coredata. Now I changed the design of the app to add new functionality. Changes include addition of new attributes to current entities, deletion of few entities etc. Now, if I upload the app to app store, does it approve...

Core Data breaking many-to-many relationship

Hi, I have the following data model and i want to break the many-to-many relationship between EntityA and EntityB. I'm doing this by removing EntityC object that connects both of them. I found that EntityA still have a relationship with EntityB although I saved the managed object context, I can see the changes take affect after EntityA r...

modal view while importing data

I'll start with a confession here... I'm a real newbie to Objective-C & iPhone programming (started studying in February & coding in March), I have a project that's very ambitious for that level of experience & a very tight deadline to catch an opportunity to give my app a field trial. My app is Core Data driven & downloads all of it's ...

iPhone CoreData Migration and modifying data

I have an app that has both static data and user entered data in the CoreData store. I understand how to do a lightweight migration to a new database version, but how to I add or modify the static data without affecting the users data? If I have 50 static data entries to add and a couple to modify (ie. spelling mistakes) should they be...

iPhone OS: Is there a way to set up KVO between two ManagedObject Entities?

I have 2 entities I want to link with KVO, one a single statTracker class that keeps track of different stats and the other an achievement class that contains information about achievements. Ideally what I want to be able to do is set up KVO by having an instance of the achievement class observe a value on the statTracker class and also ...

iPhone Mapkit: Annotation coordinate inconsistances when saved in core data

Here is my situation. For some reason my annotation coordinates that are saved in core data do not seem to match the coordinates that I can retrieve from the pins location on the map. So, I save my data into core data using something like: [ride setLatitude:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:newRidePlacemark.coordinate.latitude]]; [ride setLo...

How to separate model and view with Core Data?

I have a subclass of UIView which draws itself based on data held in a corresponding model class, which is a subclass of NSManagedObject. The problem is, some fields in the data model (e.g. the position of the view) are already held in the view (i.e. the frame property in this case). I then have a data duplication/synchronization probl...

Mystery Key Value Coding Key

Hello, I'm attempting to load data from an undocumented API (OsiriX). Getting the NSManagedObject like this: NSManagedObject *itemStudy = [[BrowserController databaseOutline] itemAtRow: [[BrowserController databaseOutline] selectedRow]]; works just fine. But getting the NSManagedObject like this: seriesArray = [_context executeFetchR...

iPhone: Get indexPath of Predicate Object

I am using a predicate to find an object in core data. I can successfully find the object that I want, but I need to also get the indexPath of that object, so that I can push a details view in for that object. Currently I have the following code for getting my object: NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init]; ...

Trying to recognize _NSFaultingMutableSet as member of NSSet

I'm trying to recognize the result of a generic query to a managed object as an NSSet. Currently the class returned is a member of _NSFaultingMutableSet, which is clearly related, but fails the isMemberOf:[NSSet class] and isKindOf:[NSSet class] calls. Given that Cocoa doesn't do a direct implementation of NSSet, it's not surprising th...

CoreData NSFetchedResultsController Empty Section Display

Hello I would like to show a fixed number of sections in a table view with a Fetched Results Controller as the data source. If you image the contacts app where sections organised by the alphabet, it will not have a header for B if there are no contacts in that section, so the section headers you see are A then C. I would like to displ...

NSMutableArray of NSString in CoreData(iPhone

I have a class, which describe an object for parsing XML. This class contains NSStrings and NSMutableArrays of NSStrings.I want to store parsed data using CoreData. How should I write CoreData model to store such objects if there is no such data type like NSMutableArray? Is there any way? ...

NSFetchedResultsController on secondary UITableView - how to query data?

I am creating a core-data based Navigation iPhone app with multiple screens. Let's say it is a flash-card application. The data model is very simple, with only two entities: Language, and CardSet. There is a one-to-many relationship between the Language entity and the CardSet entities, so each Language may contain multiple CardSets. In o...