Entity Inheritance
Similar to classes, entities have the ability to inherit from a parent. This useful feature allows you to simplify the data model. Child entities automatically inherit the attributes of their parent entity. In an underlying SQLite store, all entities involved in a parent-child hierarchy reside in the same table.
The sample application is centered on the understanding that grocery items could live in one of two locations: the shop or your house. This means entity inheritance could be leveraged to allow attributes common to a shop location and home location to be inherited from a parent location. For example, let’s say an entity called Location has an attribute called summary. If another entity such as LocationAtHome or LocationAtShop ...
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