How to store CLLocation using Core Data (iPhone)?

Question

I\'m trying to save a location and retrieve the location on a map afterward using Core Location, MapKit and Core Data frameworks.

What I\'ve done is I just made entity

Answer 1

You don't need to use NSNumber to store latitude and longitude points. You can store CLLocation directly to core data instead.

Set up an entity for each CLLocation, it'll be a too-many relation off whatever entity is using location points. Let's call this LocationPoint:

class LocationPoint: NSManagedObject {

@NSManaged var game: NSNumber
@NSManaged var time: NSDate
@NSManaged var location: AnyObject

}

You then set the location property to transformable in the Xcode data model. That's it!

In Objective-c you can actually still declare this LocationPoint property as CLLocation without any errors:

@property (nonatomic, strong) CLLocation *location

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