Is NSPersistentStoreCoordinator Thread Safe?

Question

I\'m working on an iPhone app that uses Core Data. The app makes a call to a web service, parses the resulting XML file, and then creates or modifies Core Data objects in my app

Answer 1

Is it possible to have a second managed object context running on a separate thread sharing the same NSPersistentStoreCoordinator with the main thread?

Yes! I recommend you to read the corresponding section of Zarra's book carefully before venturing into multi-threaded access to CoreData.

Or, more succinctly, is NSPersistentStoreCoordinator thread-safe?

Well, the word `thread-safe' has shades of meaning in the Apple doc, so be very careful! See this blog article for a nice explanation.