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iOS Introduction to Core Data Inserting and Saving Data Using a Context Inserting Data

Posted by Pablo Cornejo
Pablo Cornejo
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Creating managed objects

In this video you create the new managed object using the following:

let item = NSEntityDescription.insertNewObject(forEntityName: "Item", into: managedObjectContext) as! Item

I've seen managed objects also be created like:

let item = Item(context: managedObjectContext)

Is there any difference between those two ways of initializing a new managed object?