Thank you for taking the time to answer. Sorry about the declarative question
mark.
I guess I just needed a sanity check. I inherited a NSManagedObject category
that was being too aggressive
in converting everything to Dictionary. So, I turned that value back into an
NSString and it worked.
Thank you for your time.
- j-
On Apr 3, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2012, at 12:11 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
>
>> I am trying to import data into Core Data. I am trying to set the value of
>> one the attributes to the following string:
>>
>> MeasureID = 2376;
>> Property = {
>> root = {
>> ExtendedProperties = {
>> item = {
>> "@id" = PhotoRequired;
>> text = 0;
>> };
>> };
>> };
>> };
>
> This appears to be a text property list, almost. You don't include the outer
> brace pair. How do you read this "string," and how are you applying it to a
> managed object?
>
>> It takes the MeasureID but no matter what I do it won't take the String in
>> Property?
>
> What "takes" it? The managed object?
>
>> And worse, the following code: [self setValue:value forKey:attribute]; Just
>> swallows it and doesn't throw any errors ?
>
> What is "value?" How is it obtained? Have you examined it in the debugger (or
> through an NSLog()) to verify it isn't nil?
>
>> Is the fact that it looks like an array or dictionary throwing off
>> NSManagedObject?
>
> Nothing in Cocoa interprets plist data unless you explicitly put it through a
> serializer, such as the array- or dictionary-with-contents-of-file
> initializers or the NSPropertyListSerialization class.
>
> But you apparently want Measure/Property to be interpreted as dictionary
> key/value pairs (net of the absence of enclosing braces), but you don't want
> to interpret the dictionary assigned to Property. The deserializers don't
> work that way; they convert the nested structures to arrays and dictionaries
> all the way down.
>
> You'll have to show us your actual code. What's happening depends on what
> you're actually doing, and a narrative description of what you meant to do
> doesn't tell us enough to know what you did.
>
> And please don't tack question marks onto the ends of declarative sentences.
>
> — F
>
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