Core Data to-many relationship: Controller Challenge…

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#1

Hello,

I have a to-many relationship between two objects: OBJ <<---->> ACTION

Every OBJ has a set of ACTIONs, which can be executed if the status of an other OBJ has a certain value. So the entities are:

OBJ
Attributes
alias (the name of the Obj)
status (its integer status)
Relationships
actions (the possible actions for this Obj)

ACTION
Attributes
title (the name of the action)
Relationships
conditionObj (the Obj whose status is tested)

This is the Model. Now for the View part:

I have a table view containing the ACTIONs. On each row, there is a pop menu to select the conditional OBJ for this ACTION.

The Controller part for this pop menu is unclear for me: I get only errors or insignificant results. I bind:

The “Title” table column to ACTIONController.title
The “Conditional Object” table column contains a pop menu. For this pop menu, I bind

The Content to the OBJController.arrangedObjects
The Content Values to the OBJController.arrangedObjects.alias

So far so good. But what for the Selected Value?

I hope I’ve made myself clear enough. Can you help me, please?

#2

For selection you could also bind Selected Index to OBJController.selectionIndex

#3

Hi Stefan,

I found: it was “Selected Objet”, as the relation to the menu item IS an object. The value or the tag will of course be correct, because they belong to the object.

More, I made everything work by adding a new relationship between “OBJ” and “ACTION”.

OBJ ACTION
. .
Relationships Relationships
targetObject <------->> actions
conditionObject <------->> condition

If I don’t, the inverse relationship always refers to the same (self) object. So, by changing a relationship, I was changing the object itself!

By adding a new one-to-many relationship, I can indirectly make a OBJ to OBJ relation (the targetObject and conditionObject may be the same one) AND keep the graph consistent.

Each day, I understand better what “Core Data is not for beginners” means.