Direct link to ERSync talk: 
http://www.wocommunity.org/podcasts/wowodc/2011/Remote_sync.mov

> Hi Ricardo,
> 
> You should listen to the ERSync presentation from WOWODC 2011 for ideas. 
> David will talk again about ERSync at WOWODC 2012, and Dan Beatty will 
> present something for the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch part that sync with 
> ERRest/ERSync.
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm writing an iOS app that will fetch data from an ERRest-based-WOApp. I 
>> want it to use CoreData on the iOS side and be as integrated as I can get it.
>> The whole ERRest thing seems really built to that end and the CoreData stack 
>> is obviously an EO spin-off, but I did not find around some design 
>> guidelines to help me identify a correct course of action.
>> 
>> In particular the very interesting "WWDC2010 Session 117 - Building a 
>> Server-driven User Experience", clearly identifies key points to follow, but 
>> I was not able to find any sample code to show the details of that design. 
>> I'm talking mostly about the iOS side as WO+ERRest basically do everything 
>> for me on the server side.
>> 
>> Anyway, I'm building something based on those slides… so…
>> 
>> On my WO side:
>> 
>> I have an ERRest based app with a custom authentication system that allows 
>> for a login/logout/check action. These are simple DirectActions but with 
>> correct HTTP response codes, and they return the sessionID on success. The 
>> client app should store it in a cookie or provide it on any URL request, it 
>> doesn't matter.
>> Various entity controllers that provide data in json/plist/xml/whatever with 
>> the added option to request only certain keys on show to minimize traffic if 
>> needed (my showFilter is limited to certain values server-side but the 
>> remaining ones can be on-demand so that, if I only need Person.firstName for 
>> 9000 records, I don't have to fetch unnecessary data.
>> 
>> On my iOS side I have:
>> 
>> A category that extends NSManagedObjectContext and provides:
>> - (NSManagedObject *)localInstanceOfObject:(NSManagedObject *)iObject;
>> 
>> A category that extends NSEntityDescription and provides:
>> - (NSString *)route;
>> - (BOOL)allowsFetch;
>> - (BOOL)allowsInsert;
>> - (BOOL)allowsUpdate;
>> - (BOOL)allowsDelete;
>> 
>> A category that extends NSManagedObject and provides:
>> - (NSManagedObject *)localInstanceInContext:(NSManagedObjectContext 
>> *)context;
>> - (NSDictionary *)toDictionary;
>> 
>> A category that extends NSFetchRequest and provides:
>> Incomplete… but would simply add a method that includes on optional endpoint 
>> for the fetch, as well as the qualifiers and sortorderings I want to pass to 
>> the server.
>> 
>> A subclass of NSManagedObjectContext with overrides for:
>> - (NSArray *)executeFetchRequest:(NSFetchRequest *)request error:(NSError 
>> **)error;
>> - (BOOL)save:(NSError **)error;
>> 
>> A subclass of NSManagedObject that provides a:
>> @property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *endpoint;
>> 
>> A model that mimics the EO-counterpart, only with waaaay less attributes.
>> 
>> A subclass of my custom NSManagedObject for each entity
>> 
>> This, I hope, is roughly what that session was suggesting and I can see it 
>> would work nicely.
>> I'm trying to figure out how to implement the background operations that are 
>> to be performed by the two NSManagedObjectContext overrides. My idea is that 
>> the app just fetches on my CoreData stack and gets whatever data we already 
>> have persistently saved previously. But the fetch also initiates a server 
>> side check that eventually results in objects being updated in the UI. This 
>> has to be asynchronous on a custom RunLoop/thread and silently inform the 
>> various NSManagedObjectContexts that data has been updated from the server.
>> 
>> Has anyone gone down this road? I'd love to look at some code samples, ideas 
>> or design guidelines. Anything really ;-) 
>> 
>> regards,
>> Riccardo
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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