Core Data Tips
1. Notes
- Three types of concurrency available for NSManagedObjectContext
- Main thread linked to UI (NSMainQueueConcurrencyType)
- Private queue for background tasks (NSPrivateQueueConcurrencyType)
- Confinement for legacy (NSConfinementConcurrencyType)
- used with
- serialised dispatch_queue or
- NSOperationQueue with max concurrency one
- harder to manage
- To simplify usage of Core Data APIs, use NSMainQueueConcurrencyType
- View controllers and other UI components can use directly and are not required to know about performBlock: APIs.
- An instance of
NSManagedObject is owned by the NSManagedObjectContext it was created in
- Access allowed in only the NSOperationQueue (or dispatch_queue) the related NSManagedObjectContext is related to.
- Use objectID of NSManagedObject to pass around objects.
- Use
performBlock: to do tasks on NSManagedObjectContext.