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Seeding a Core Data Persistent Store
Loading Seed Data From a File
| 1 | Three Strategies 05:11 |
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| 2 | Hard-Coding Seed Data 09:52 |
| 3 | Seeding Data Asynchronously 08:34 |
| 4 | Avoiding Duplicates 08:12 |
| 5 | Loading Seed Data From a File 08:21 |
| 6 | Loading Seed Data From a Remote Server 05:45 |
Hard-coding seed data is quick and easy, but it's not my preferred solution. Loading seed data from a file is a strategy I like more. The idea is simple. You include a file with seed data in the application bundle. The file is loaded at runtime and its contents parsed. The contents is used to seed the persistent store with data.
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