Question

From an Apple example, I have this:

Event *event = (Event*)[NSEntityDescription 
    insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Event" 
             inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];

Event inherits from NSManagedObject. Is there a way to avoid this weird call to NSEntityDescription and instead just alloc+init somehow directly the Event class? Would I have to write my own initializer that just does that stuff above? Or is NSManagedObject already intelligent enough to do that?

Answer 1

NSManagedObject provides a method called initWithEntity:insertIntoManagedObjectContext:. You can use this to do a more traditional alloc/init pair. Keep in mind that the object this returns is not autoreleased.