Question

In my app I need to import a 100MB xml file into a Core Data Model.

So far, I’ve imported a 100KB xml file and everything works fine. However, not sure how long it takes to import a 100MB xml. I will run it tonite, in the while.. do you think this approach is good ?

thanks

NSManagedObjectContext * context = [self managedObjectContext];

    // Delete all documents
    NSFetchRequest * fetch = [[[NSFetchRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
    [fetch setEntity:[NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Document" inManagedObjectContext:context]];
    NSArray * result = [context executeFetchRequest:fetch error:nil];
    for (id basket in result)
        [context deleteObject:basket];



    //Insert documents
    TBXML * tbxml = [[TBXML tbxmlWithXMLFile:@"categ_small.xml"] retain];
    TBXMLElement * root = tbxml.rootXMLElement;
    TBXMLElement * doc = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"doc" parentElement:root];

    do {
        TBXMLElement * idDoc = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"id" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * titleDoc = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"title" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * descriptionDoc = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"description" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * time = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"time" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * tags = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"tags" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * geo = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"geo" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * event = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"event" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * user = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"user" parentElement:doc];
        TBXMLElement * categ = [TBXML childElementNamed:@"categ" parentElement:doc];

        NSManagedObject *newDocument = [NSEntityDescription
                                        insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Document"
                                        inManagedObjectContext:context];

        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:idDoc] forKey:@"idDoc"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:titleDoc] forKey:@"titleDoc"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:descriptionDoc] forKey:@"descriptionDoc"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:time] forKey:@"time"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:tags] forKey:@"tags"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:geo] forKey:@"geo"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:event] forKey:@"event"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:user] forKey:@"user"];
        [newDocument setValue:[TBXML textForElement:categ] forKey:@"categ"];

    } while ((doc = doc->nextSibling));  

UPDATE
This is a one-time operation which runs in the Simulator only, and it won’t be deployed with the final application.

Answer 1

I’d do the following steps:

• Write a converter XML->SQLite with ruby or php, or if you are not a friend of scripting languages then have a look at SQLite Manager it’s a Firefox Plugin to manage SQLite database and it’s capable of importing XML.

• Prepopulate core-data for shipping following this tutorial: How To Preload/Import Existing Data