Core Data for iOS: Developing Data-Driven Applications for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

Chapter 4. Basic Storing and Fetching

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Creating New Managed Objects

• Fetching Saved Managed Objects

• Deleting Managed Objects

• Working with Table Views

• Custom Managed Object Sub-Classes

Back in Chapter 2, “A Core Data Primer,” you learned the basic terms and underlying features in the Core Data framework. You saw how a persistent store coordinator is set up to talk to a SQLite persistent store, and how a managed object context can then be created to act as a scratchpad for the managed objects pulled from the store.

In this chapter you’ll see how new managed objects are created in a managed object context, based on the entity descriptions you define in the managed object model. You’ll learn how these new objects are stored ...