Passing managedObjectContext along to view/controller hierarchy

Question

Managed object context in most cases created in application delegate. What are the ways of passing it along to view/controller hierarchy, so every navigation/tab controller in t

Answer 1

The recommended design is to do a dependency injection. This means that when you create a UIViewController you pass in the NSManagedObjectContext via a property. If the UIViewController only needs a single or set of NSManagedObject instances then you would just hand those in via properties.

This design is more flexible and allows for greater reuse of your code. Linking everything to a single "hard-coded" NSManagedObjectContext in the AppDelegate is fragile and reduces the flexibility of your code.

I discuss this in depth on The Mac Developer Network. (edit: lost link now via Wayback Machine's Cache)

Answer 2

You can also create a main context object in your main Nib. And link the controllers with this object. Or create a singleton if you only use one MOC.