Creating a CoreData schema / model in code

[Robert Friston]

Hi all,

I have checked the web and all for this and I am not yet fully convinced if this is possible or not.

Basically I want to have my app run on CoreData that is populated by a Salesforce data source using REST and all that lovely ness, but the structure of the underlying SQLite database tables and fields are unknown by me the developer - this is pulled down from Salesforce as metadata.

So I can use SQLite directly I guess to manage all of this, but I would really prefer to use the CoreData abstraction layer if at all possible.

Any pointers on this? anyone know of an existing API kit I could maybe hack for this use?

Cheers
Bob

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[Will Johnston]

Robert
Just so happens we just did this on the last project. Go to the force.com website. They have a library built on top of restkit.
The force library is not great since you have to do your own parsing, but gets you started, the core data stuff we did ourselves.

Give me a shout if you need a hand.
Cheers
Will

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[Will Johnston]

Here is the code, https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS

[Robert Friston]

Hi Will,

Thanks, and that is a coincidence indeed. Did you go that Cloud-force event the other day at Excel Docklands? We were there as Tquila - the company i am now working for - quite an event.

So I am interested in the way you hooked up to CoreData! Were you able to create the xcdatamode schema dynamically as it were using code - or were you working to a known Salesforce data structure?

Maybe we could meet for a beer sometime - we might be potentially useful to each other in the future.

Cheers

Bob

[Chris Ross]

http://www.cocoanetics.com/2012/04/creating-a-coredata-model-in-code/

This will help you.

[Robert Friston]

Hi Chris,

Oh man, thanks - that looks really bang on.

Cheers
Bob