Wow Ken - that sounds fantastic.

I’m just at the early stages - but would rather work on something more generic 
than a quick-and-dirty model-specific solution - but was going to go for latter 
due to time constraints… perfection being enemy of the productive…

Mark

On 18 Feb 2014, at 22:56, Ken Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> I built a library on both iOS and WO that syncs a data model between the 2.  
> It has some pretty decent features, like you can define an ownership key path 
> on the server side, and only those EO’s owned by the person syncing are sent 
> over.
> 
> It’s not really documented yet or anything, but I could probably put 
> something together to share.
> 
> The big difference between mine and other sync mechanisms is I don’t keep a 
> log of everything to send to everybody (my data model is big, so it would get 
> painful).  Also, it’s reasonably smart about doing things offline (like 
> maintaining relationships even when a number of transactions have happened on 
> the device without an internet connection).
> 
> Let me know if this interests you enough for me to spruce it up.
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Mark Wardle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi. Glad it is a common use-case. Not sure if you have misunderstood my 
>> intentions but I was asking for advice rather than planning a super-duper 
>> automatic EOF to obj-c/core data magic converter - although I had hoped 
>> someone else had already invented such a wonder (no pun intended).
>> 
>> Am experimenting with the iOS library RestKit which I think can make a core 
>> data model from what it receives from a REST service automagically… I think…
>> 
>> Mark
>> On 14 Feb 2014, at 14:41, Jesse Tayler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> FANTASTIC!
>>> 
>>> yes, ERSync is not going to work for the main question which is how to 
>>> store a local object graph that loads as the user sees things, and keep it 
>>> updated while still being able to rationally send data back to the server 
>>> in a way that can handle offline or poor network conditions etc.
>>> 
>>> ERRest is SUPER-FAB for being the server of an iPhone client and there’s 
>>> quite a few tricks we can and should compile together.
>>> 
>>> So, definitely call upon me to have something to say about all this and 
>>> I’ve been at it a few years now, so I have gone through all this at least 
>>> once or twice.
>>> 
>>> greatly looking forward!
>>> 
>>> jess
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 14, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Mark Wardle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am starting to work on a new presentation layer for our web application 
>>>> using the iOS SDK. We plan on writing custom small iOS apps that integrate 
>>>> with the larger more complex backend web-application built in WebObjects. 
>>>> 
>>>> I can see ERSync but note it is not in Wonder yet. Is this still in 
>>>> development or is it ready for deployment? It certainly looks an easy way 
>>>> to get started.
>>>> 
>>>> However, we might want more finely grained control anyway. We’ve been 
>>>> adding REST interfaces to the backend. Does anyone have any 
>>>> recommendations for an iOS client library to make this work trivial? I 
>>>> would think that we could create some stub object-graph in objective c 
>>>> that then gets sent to the server semi-automatically? Is there something 
>>>> that would take an EOModel and create a core data equivalent or skeleton 
>>>> classes? 
>>>> 
>>>> I can see various references on the mailing list but nothing on the wiki. 
>>>> 
>>>> Any pointers (*) much appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> Mark
>>>> (*) you can tell I’m back to coding in C and not just using java (!)
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dr. Mark Wardle
>>>> Consultant Neurologist, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, UK
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