Re: Is Core Data appropriate to my task?

2009-09-10 Thread Gwynne Raskind
On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Erik Buck wrote: Yes. Use Core Data. Your application is exactly what Core data is intended to support. Create a planet entity. Create a one to many relationship so that each employee has one planet, but each planet has an unlimited number of employees. This

re: Is Core Data appropriate to my task?

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Trumbull
Gwynne, I have an application that manages two kinds of data: A singular file that contains a large amount of rarely changed (but not invariant) data, and documents that contain one root object's worth of information that connects to the singular data set in a very large number of places; the

Re: Is Core Data appropriate to my task?

2009-09-10 Thread Gwynne Raskind
Before anything else, let me say thank you for a clear, concise, and very helpful set of answers to my questions; I was expecting rather more of a struggle for understanding :). On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Ben Trumbull wrote: support for such a thing; I would either have to write a custom

Re: Is Core Data appropriate to my task?

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Trumbull
I don't see this as being equivelant at all. Extending the example, let's say the company with these Employees has as its directors several discriminating unfair people, and thus an Employee from any given Planet gets a salary adjustment based on that Planet. The obvious place for this data is

Re: Is Core Data appropriate to my task?

2009-09-10 Thread Ben Trumbull
Before anything else, let me say thank you for a clear, concise, and very helpful set of answers to my questions; I was expecting rather more of a struggle for understanding :). my pleasure. On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Ben Trumbull wrote: The inverse relationship from Planet to Employee,