Creating and Using Keys
When an image is added to the store, it will be put into the cache under a unique key, and the associated Item object will be given that key. When the DetailViewController wants an image from the store, it will ask its item for the key and search the cache for the image.
Add a property to Item.swift to store the key.
let dateCreated: NSDate let itemKey: String
The image keys need to be unique for your cache to work. While there are many ways to hack together a unique string, you are going to use the Cocoa Touch mechanism for creating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), also known as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs). Objects of type NSUUID represent a UUID and are generated using the time, a ...
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