Explanation of NSIncrementalStore in plain english

Question

I\'ve been seeing NSIncrementalStore popping up as I\'ve been researching the best ways to interact with a web service using core data.

After reading an art

Answer 1

You would use NSIncrementalStore to access a remote server through Core Data. In stead of reading from and writing to a local file, you'd push request to the server and get a response back which you'd push into Core Data. Likewise for save, etc.

Note, however, that this is non-trivial to do. It's a very powerful feature, but unless you're an expert in Core Data usage, I'd strongly discourage it, since there are endless opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot unless you know a lot about how Core Data's interaction with the storage layer works.

If using an uploaded solves your problem, then do that instead.