On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Chris Hanson <c...@me.com> wrote: > On Aug 28, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Andy Bell <andy.b...@allbabel.com> wrote: > > > At a later date I want to use something like REST using JSON to be the > backend to Core Data in the application. Is this going to be possible? > > Core Data only has API for creating your own atomic persistent stores - > that is, persistent stores whose entire contents are read or written at > once. This means it doesn't really make sense to talk about REST or JSON as > a "back-end" to Core Data. > > What does make sense - and is quite common - is using a Core Data SQLite > persistent store as a local cache for data on a server, or as a local > database synchronized (via your own mechanism) with a server. > > Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. So I can code and design the application using Core Data and then later use the same local backend as a cache for an online database using whatever protocol to synchronise the local database.
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