carpeaqua by Justin Williams

Dog Spanner Proposes NSManagedObjectOperation

Wolf reminisces on EOF’s ability to drop down into raw SQL operations and a more modern alternative.

A better method would be if Core Data’s NSPersistentStoreCoordinator offered a method that accepted an NSPredicate or NSFetchRequest (I haven’t decided which would be better) along with an NSArray of NSManagedObjectOperations.

NSManagedObjectOperation would be a new, lightweight class that declaratively describes how a matched object should be operated upon. The idea is it would be easily compiled down to raw SQL, yet still be compatible with all the other (and future) store types.

One thing I love about Wolf Rentzsch and Aaron is their love for a 10 year old persistence framework for WebObjects. What couldn’t it do?

Posted on February 27th, 2010 in Linked