Gordon Apple (g...@ed4u.com) on 2010-07-18 16:20 said:

>Question 2:  In the File class, what should I override to delete the actual
>associated file when a file object is deleted from the database?  (I'm
>currently doing that separately when deleting the managed object.) Does
>NSManagedObject's "dealloc" get called?

Definitely don't use dealloc.

>Question 3:  The main entity has several NSNumbers.  Should I write
>translators for each of these to make life easier?  (Why wasn't this built
>into CoreData in the first place?)

Take a look at mogenerator:
<http://rentzsch.github.com/mogenerator/>

It generates such methods for you.

>Question 4:  Is there any reason why you can't add additional methods (not
>ivars) to Managed object code-files?

No, doing so is quite common.

>Question 5:  I'm currently formulating file URLs in a separate FileManager
>object.  Is there a better way for CoreData to manage file references?  Full
>URLs could be problematic, if later systems change anything.  Maybe partial
>URLs/paths relative to the application's documents folder?

Dunno about iOS, but on Mac I'd suggest either NDAlias or
bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL:error:.

Sean


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