Best way to implement Enums with Core Data

Question

What is the best way to bind Core Data entities to enum values so that I am able to assign a type property to the entity? In other words, I have an entity called Item<

Answer 1

Since enums are backed by a standard short you could also not use the NSNumber wrapper and set the property directly as a scalar value. Make sure to set the data type in the core data model as "Integer 32".

MyEntity.h

typedef enum {
kEnumThing, /* 0 is implied */
kEnumWidget, /* 1 is implied */
} MyThingAMaBobs;

@interface myEntity : NSManagedObject

@property (nonatomic) int32_t coreDataEnumStorage;

Elsewhere in code

myEntityInstance.coreDataEnumStorage = kEnumThing;

Or parsing from a JSON string or loading from a file

myEntityInstance.coreDataEnumStorage = [myStringOfAnInteger intValue];