But I am concerned about managedObjects whose retain count falls to
zero, but which are *not* explicitly deleted using -deleteObject.
Are these automatically deleted from the persistent store on save, or
do they hang around?
I create a lot of objects with many relationships which I do not want
to track manually. Once they are released from all relationships and
their retain count falls to zero, I want them to be deleted from the
persistent store since I have no further use for them.
An example of this might be a 'sequence' object, which is an ordered
collection of 'scene' objects. Once a sequence has lost all of its
scenes and has been removed from any parent sequences, its retain-count
will be zero and I would like it to be removed from the persistent
store on the next save, since I may create and dispose of hundreds of
these objects in the course of writing a screenplay over many weeks.
I don't want to have to track this manually, so I'm trying to find out
how exactly it works.
On Apr 29, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:
When the MOC saves, is the persistent store overwritten, and the
object effectively deleted from the saved file, or does it hang
around and have to be deleted manually using the -deleteObject
method?
You only have to delete it once, then save. Does that answer the
question?
A Managed Object could also be deleted indirectly if it's at the
destination end of a relationship which is set to "cascade", and the
owner of the relationship is deleted.
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