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Managed object
A managed object is a model object (in the model-view-controller sense) that represents a record from a persistent store. A managed object is an instance of NSManagedObject
or a subclass of NSManagedObject
. A managed object is registered with a managed object context. In any given context, there is at most one instance of a managed object that corresponds to a given record in a persistent store.
A managed object has a reference to an entity description object that tells it what entity it represents. In this way, NSManagedObject
can represent any entity—you don’t need a unique subclass per entity. You use a subclass if you want to implement custom behavior, for example to calculate a derived property value, or to implement validation logic.
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