NSManagedObject实例的值copy

从官网的文档我们知道，实例化NSManagedObject不能像一般的nsobject一样[[NSManagedObjectalloc] init],这样运行时会出错，正确的方法是：<style type="text/css"> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo; color: #008423} </style>

[NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:entity inManagedObjectContext:[db managedObjectContext]] 或

[[NSManagedObject alloc]initWithEntity:entityinManagedObjectContext:[db managedObjectContext]]

返回的实例。

如果我们想把一个实列的值copy到另一个实例，如何做呢，我们可以根据属性，一个一个copy，但是代码不灵活，如果我们改了数据库字段，那么代码又要改，我发现了一个通用的代码。

- (NSManagedObject*)copyObject:(NSManagedObject*)object toContext:(NSManagedObjectContext*)moc parent:(NSString*)parentEntity; { NSString *entityName = [[object entity] name]; NSManagedObject *newObject = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:entityName inManagedObjectContext:moc]; [[self lookup] setObject:newObject forKey:[object objectID]]; NSArray *attKeys = [[[object entity] attributesByName] allKeys]; NSDictionary *attributes = [object dictionaryWithValuesForKeys:attKeys]; [newObject setValuesForKeysWithDictionary:attributes]; id oldDestObject = nil; id temp = nil; NSDictionary *relationships = [[object entity] relationshipsByName]; for (NSString *key in [relationships allKeys]) { NSRelationshipDescription *desc = [relationships valueForKey:key]; NSString *destEntityName = [[desc destinationEntity] name]; if ([destEntityName isEqualToString:parentEntity]) continue; if ([desc isToMany]) { NSMutableSet *newDestSet = [NSMutableSet set]; for (oldDestObject in [object valueForKey:key]) { temp = [[self lookup] objectForKey:[oldDestObject objectID]]; if (!temp) { temp = [self copyObject:oldDestObject toContext:moc parent:entityName]; } [newDestSet addObject:temp]; } [newObject setValue:newDestSet forKey:key]; } else { oldDestObject = [object valueForKey:key]; if (!oldDestObject) continue; temp = [[self lookup] objectForKey:[oldDestObject objectID]]; if (!temp && ![destEntityName isEqualToString:parentEntity]) { temp = [self copyObject:oldDestObject toContext:moc parent:entityName]; } [newObject setValue:temp forKey:key]; } } return newObject; }源码来自：http://pastebin.com/efkji4sy

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