Re: Using Keys to create Unique Attributes in CoreData?
Re: Using Keys to create Unique Attributes in CoreData?
- Subject: Re: Using Keys to create Unique Attributes in CoreData?
- From: Charilaos Skiadas <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:11:45 -0500
On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote:
I know I'm using some terminology already in CoreData, but I think
I'm using it for a different meaning, so I'll explain...
When I worked with Microsoft SQL/ASP all the way back in 2000, you
could specify a key value in the schema for an entity. For example,
I was coding a job database. A person could view jobs and send in
their resumes. In the database, the job entity had it's job id set
up as a key value (job id was an attribute of the job entity). That
is, the database would only allow there to be one job entity with
that job id. NSDictionary is something very similar in a way. All
keys in an NSDictionary must be unique, if you try to add a object
with a key value that already exists in the dictionary, the old one
is overwritten.
Does CoreData have any way to do this? I have two values in an
entity, and I want to make sure no other entity in the database has
those two same values. I tried doing this progmatically with fetch
requests and deleting manually but this was dog slow. I went from
being able to handle around 800 entity adds in a second to about
800 in ten seconds. Is there a fast "good" way to do this, or even
a built in way?
There's no built in way AFAIK, you'll have to come up with your own,
but I would suggest cacheing the ids, possibly as keys in a
dictionary, instead of trying to fetch them each time you want to see
if you can add a new entity. I.e. keep a dictionary with keys all the
ids, and maybe the corresponding objects as objects? This way, you
are using the fact that dictionaries are already optimized to quickly
find a key if it exists, or return nil if it doesn't.
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Colin Cornaby - http://gomac.blogspot.com/
Carpe Stellarem - Lead Programmer, ProToys - http://carpestellarem.com
Macintosh Specialist - University of Portland - htttp://up.edu
Haris
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