Re: Exporting and Importing CoreData
Re: Exporting and Importing CoreData
- Subject: Re: Exporting and Importing CoreData
- From: Siegfried <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:52:57 -0300
On 23/03/2011, at 20:57, BareFeetWare wrote:
> On 24/03/2011, at 10:13 AM, Siegfried wrote:
>
>> I need to create an export / import system for my app, and just thought that asking the list for some advices could help a lot.
>>
>> The CoreData database I have is fairly simple. No relationships, only 3 entities with no more than 4 properties each: numbers and strings.
>
> Have you considered using SQLite, either for the import/export file format, or even for the native app document format (so the native and export file are actually the same thing and no export is needed)? It removes several layers of complication.
Well, the app is not document based, so exporting its internal database is only for backup and sharing purposes. Also, I don't think exporting a partial database would be practical with SQLite (exporting one kind of entity for example). So I don't think that's something
>
> There are many tools for manipulating SQLite data on every platform, so it's easy to access the document elsewhere.
>
> Tom
> BareFeetWare
>
> --
> Comparison of SQLite GUI tools:
> http://www.barefeetware.com/sqlite/compare/?ml
>
Great link! Quite useful.
Thanks Tom for providing valuable information,
Best wishes,
Siegfried_______________________________________________
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