Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Trumbull
On 6 Jul 2009, at 23:37, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Thanks all for your feedback. Seems quite inefficient. Wonder if this is filed as a suggestion to Apple. Seeming and being aren't the same. If you encounter performance issues with Core Data, please capture a Shark or Instruments trace and

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Swift
On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Sean McBride wrote: On 7/7/09 1:19 AM, Mike Abdullah said: Thanks all for your feedback. Seems quite inefficient. Wonder if this is filed as a suggestion to Apple. Why should that matter? File a request anyway, it will make the existing request ore prominent.

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-07 Thread Sean McBride
On 7/7/09 1:19 AM, Mike Abdullah said: >> Thanks all for your feedback. Seems quite inefficient. Wonder if this >> is filed as a suggestion to Apple. > >Why should that matter? File a request anyway, it will make the >existing request ore prominent. Not that I disagree with the "file a request an

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 6 Jul 2009, at 23:37, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Thanks all for your feedback. Seems quite inefficient. Wonder if this is filed as a suggestion to Apple. Why should that matter? File a request anyway, it will make the existing request ore prominent. There are two reasons to have a batch

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-06 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Thanks all for your feedback. Seems quite inefficient. Wonder if this is filed as a suggestion to Apple. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Chris Hanson wrote: > On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > >> I have a suspicious feeling that there has to be a deleteAll message >> that help

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Hanson
On Jul 6, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: I have a suspicious feeling that there has to be a deleteAll message that helps clear entities of a certain kind. There is no "delete all instances of this entity" method in Core Data. The only way to do so is to fetch all instance of the

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-06 Thread Sean McBride
On 7/6/09 11:32 AM, Greg Guerin said: >> I was wondering the same thing the other day. After searching the >> docs >> and archives, I concluded the only way is to call deleteObject: in a >> loop. I was surprised there's no method that takes an array/set and >> deletes them all. > >Delete-all-of-

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-06 Thread Greg Guerin
Sean McBride wrote: I was wondering the same thing the other day. After searching the docs and archives, I concluded the only way is to call deleteObject: in a loop. I was surprised there's no method that takes an array/set and deletes them all. Delete-all-of-a-kind sounds like something o

Re: CoreData deleteAll of kind

2009-07-06 Thread Sean McBride
On 7/6/09 7:49 PM, Devraj Mukherjee said: >I need my application to be able to delete all objects of a core data >managed entity, at the moment the only way I can see how to do that is >to fetch all objects of the entity kind and delete them one at a time >looping through the collection. > >I have