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Just wondering whether there is a good way to upsert items in a CoreData db?
Or is there a way for me to consider a CoreData db as a set?
I mean, if I insert an item into the db and if there is already an identical redundant item there, the db ignores it. Any way to conveniently do it? or I have to query each time when I insert in order to avoid redundancy?
No – Core Data doesn’t have a way of knowing how you consider an item “identical” or “redundant.” The definitions of those words can change with almost every entity you create – for example, departments in a business might have unique names, but multiple people can have the same name (and frequently do).
You can take advantage of Core Data’s querying power, however, and do a quick query with an NSPredicate to find out whether a record with your chosen identifier already exists. You might factor this query out to its own method (perhaps on your managed object subclass) so that you can call it conveniently.