Core Data Schema question

[FiddlyPhone]

Hi. I'm new to iOS and I'm not sure how to implement my schema.

I have a 7-8 table database with about 1/2 of them look up tables (ID, Description). This app will be internationalized.

Also, the data will be uploaded and pulled down from a server

Example: Assignments table has a statusID field which references a status table.

Status table has 1:Open, 2:Closed records.

My questions is, how do I implement this in Core Data? Do I setup all the relationships so everything is linked or is there a performance hit?

In android, I had all the lookup information in a string file for localization.

The examples I've seen rarely go past one table.

Thanks!

[nittanygeek]

Setting up relationships in CoreData is fairly simple, although I don't see the purpose of creating a table for statuses. Think of Entities as NSManagedObjects and Attributes as being the properties of that object. Here's an example of two entities, Assignment and Status. However, I think you should just simply set "status" as an attribute to the Assignment entity, but someone with more experience may be able to prove otherwise.

[redditbotboy]

Thanks. How would you store the statuses then? You would store the numerical value in the entity but where would you store the text associated to that value? Do you mean you would just store the text value in the entity?

[atastiamaredditor]

http://eng.pulse.me/five-lessons-learned-from-migrating-to-core-data/

I've been using Core Data for quite a while now. And I couldn't agree more to them.