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

Xcode 7 + Swift 2

Person.swift

@objc(Person)
class Person: NSManagedObject {
}

Data model

Then simply call

let person = NSEntityDescription.insertNewObjectForEntityForName("Person", inManagedObjectContext: self.managedObjectContext) as! Person