NSManagedObjectID into NSData

Question

I found this wonderful NSManagedObjectID. This would be very good for referencing an Entity/NSManagedObject/NSEntityDescription, right?
Let\'s get an ID from an entity:<

Answer 1

To get an archived URI corresponding to a NSManagedObject's objectID:

NSManagedObject* myMO;
...
NSURL *uri = [[myMO objectID] URIRepresentation];
NSData *uriData = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:uri];

In order to get back to an instance of the original managed object, you need a CoreData stack with the persistent store holding that instance already added to the NSPersistentStoreCoordinator. Then:

NSData *uriData;
NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *psc;
NSManagedObjectContext *moc; //with moc.persistentStoreCoordinator = psc.
...
NSURL *uri = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:uriData];
NSManagedObjectID *moID = [psc managedObjectIDForURIRepresentation:uri];
NSManagedObject *myMO = [moc objectWithID:moID];