Introduction to Atomic Store Programming Topics

Describes how to use the Core Data atomic store API to create persistent stores that use a custom format.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

Atomic Store Fundamentals describes the fundamental concepts that underly the atomic store.
Atomic Store Life-cycle describes the life-cycle of an atomic store. You should read this article to learn what methods are invoked on a store when, and what the store is expected to do as a result. This will help you to understand how to implement a custom store.
Registering a Custom Store Type describes how to register a custom atomic store type.
Initializing a Store and Loading Data describes how initialize and load data into a custom atomic store.