How come I can cast to NSManagedObject but not to my entity's type?

Question

I\'m using the Swift boilerplate code for Core Data in a fresh project. My .xcdatamodeld file has a single entity defined (Task) with a single attr

Answer 1

I guess only changing the class field in the .xcdatamodel doesn't work anymore because I still got the following exception: fatal error: use of unimplemented initializer 'init(entity:insertIntoManagedObjectContext:)' for class

So, I entered this code in my custom class:

    init(entity: NSEntityDescription!,
    insertIntoManagedObjectContext context: NSManagedObjectContext!) {
        super.init(entity: entity, insertIntoManagedObjectContext: context)
}

Suddenly, it worked! The NSManagedObject is now down-castable to my custom class. I can't really understand why this is the solution, but it works :)