A simple, customizable service for updating Core Data models. It uses ObjectiveRecord for mapping data in dictionary format to a Core Data entity's properties.

Usage

Manual

After fetching new data with which to update and insert new model instances, invoke the synchronization service to reconcile the new data with a Core Data entity.

#import <SimpleSyncService/SimpleSyncService.h>

// (Perform some fetching task, format data as an array
// of dictionaries...)

[SimpleSyncService synchronizeData:arrayOfUpdatedModelData
                    withEntityName:modelEntityName
                         inContext:managedObjectContext
               withIdentifierNamed:@"remoteID"];

When the property key in the data differs from the model property name, it can be specified like so:

[SimpleSyncService synchronizeData:arrayOfUpdatedModelData
                    withEntityName:modelEntityName
                         inContext:managedObjectContext
           withDataIdentifierNamed:@"email"
           andModelIdentifierNamed:@"emailAddress"];

The identifier properties are used to determine whether an existing record should be updated or a new record should be inserted.

Automatic

Format data fetching tasks as synchronization service adapters which are invoked on a background queue at customizable intervals. The basic flow is as follows:

1. Subclass DMMSyncServiceAdapter and write your fetching code in fetchDataWithCompletion:, remembering to invoke the SyncCompletionBlock when done fetching and formatting data.

2. Initialize your adapters with initWithInterval:entityName:modelIDKey: using the interval at which they should be run and the entity name of the model to upate. The modelIDKey is used to determine whether new data should update an existing record or be inserted as a new one.

3. Create a new SimpleSyncService instance with your adapters and preferred operation queue using initWithAdapters:useQueue:

4. Start the service with start

5. Stop the service at any time using stop

An example of this flow is included in the sample project in this repository.

Installation

Include pod 'SimpleSyncService' in your Podfile

Contributing

Contributions welcome, SimpleSyncService is testing using Kiwi.