CoreD ata

OMEGA Team

Roadmap
Coredata
Multithread
Memory Management
Notification
MVC
OOP
Introduction

Roadmap
Coredata
Multithread
Memory Management
Notification
MVC
OOP
Introduction

Agenda
Core D ata basic
Concurrency problem s
Concurrency solutions

Agenda
Core D ata basic
Concurrency problem s
Concurrency solutions

W hat is Core D ata?

Core D ata is a very im portant subfram ew ork of the C ocoa
fram ew ork that provides an O RM for O bjective-C and SQ Lite
Its not just an O RM , it m ay look like theres SQ L under the hood
Available both on the desktop and on the iPhone O S
Functionality to create, update, delete, query
M ultiple back-end storage options

W hat is Core D ata?

Core D ata provides:
Persistence
Change tracking
Relations (object graph)
Lazy loading (faulting)
Validation
W ork w ellw ith KVO (key-value observing), KVC (key-value
coding)

Basically
A system to store data
Persistence agnostic (localstorage)
N o need to w rite SQ L to query
You can keep to O bjective C

Storage O ptions
Binary fi
le
In-m em ory
XM L
N ot available on the iPhone
SQ Lite
Custom

Core D ata vs. SQ Lite

SQLite

Core
Data

Bulk/Set
Operatio
ns

Yes

No

Automati
c object
populatio
n

No

Yes

Custom
SQL

Yes

No

Select
only
certain

Yes

No

Your tools

N SM anagedO bjectM odel

N SPersistentStoreCoordinator
N SM anagedO bjectContext
N SM anagedO bject
N SM anagedO bjectID
N SFetchRequest
N SEntityD escription
N SPredicate
N SSortD escription
N SFetchedResultsController

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M anaged O bject M odel

M anaged O bject M odel

- (NSManagedObjectModel *)managedObjectModel {
if (_managedObjectModel != nil) {
return _managedObjectModel;
}
NSURL *modelURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"core-data"
withExtension:@"momd"];
_managedObjectModel = [[NSManagedObjectModel alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: modelURL];
return _managedObjectModel;
}

Persistent Store Coordinator

Persistent Store Coordinator

- (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator {
if (_persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) {
return _persistentStoreCoordinator;
}
NSURL *storeURL = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] URLByAppendingPathComponent:@core-data.sqlite];
NSError *error = nil;
_persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel: [self
managedObjectModel]];
if(![_persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType: NSSQLiteStoreType
configuration: nil
URL: storeURL
options: nil
error: &error]) {
NSLog(@Unresolved error %@, %@, error, [error userInfo]);
abort();
}
return _persistentStoreCoordinator;

Persistent Store Coordinator

- (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator {
if (_persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) {
return _persistentStoreCoordinator;
}
NSURL *storeURL = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] URLByAppendingPathComponent:@core-data.sqlite];
NSError *error = nil;
_persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel: [self
managedObjectModel]];
if(![_persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType: NSSQLiteStoreType
configuration: nil
URL: storeURL
options: nil
error: &error]) {
NSLog(@Unresolved error %@, %@, error, [error userInfo]);
abort();
}
return _persistentStoreCoordinator;

M anaged O bject Context

M anaged O bject Context

- (NSManagedObjectContext *)managedObjectContext {
if (_managedObjectContext != nil) {
return _managedObjectContext;
}
NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *coordinator = [self persistentStoreCoordinator];
if(coordinator != nil) {
_managedObjectContext = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init];
[_managedObjectContext setPersistentStoreCoordinator: coordinator];
}
return _managedObjectContext;
}

Single Context

Agenda
Core D ata basic
Concurrency problem s
Concurrency solutions

Problem s
Core D ata M anaged O bjects are not thread safe
M ust pass O bject ID s to use across threads
O bjects are locked for alloperations including read
O bjects that feed the U Im ust be fetched on the m ain thread

Agenda
Core D ata basic
Concurrency problem s
Concurrency solutions

TraditionalM ulti-Context
Pre-iO S 5: Thread Confi
n em ent
Single N SM anagedO bjectContext per thread
M anualnotifi
cations, m erging, and saving
Fairly easy to understand, but harder to m anage

TraditionalM ulti-Context

Parent Child Context

iO S 5+ : Parent Child Contexts
G rand CentralD ispatch private dispatch queues
Threading m anaged for you, no m anualsynchronization
required
Less com plicated and m ore fl
exible than pre-iO S 5 m ethod
Context can and should be nested

Parent Child Context

Parent Child Context

Parent Child Context

Parent Child Context

Parent Child Context

Problem s - Parent Child Context

Async Saving - Parent Child Context

Async Saving - Parent Child Context

Async Saving - Parent Child Context

Async Saving - Parent Child Context

Async Saving - Parent Child Context

Async Saving - Parent Child Context

Stillblocking?

Stillblocking?

For V ER Y LA R G E am ounts of data it m ay be better to generate the

SQ Lite fi
le on the server, dow nload it asynchronously, and set it up
an additionalpersistent store.

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