Renaming a core data property within an NSManagedObject class

Question

I want to rename a property, sortOrder:

to sequence, within an NSManagedObject class. (example illustration only)

And have followed the steps of Lightweight Migration.

The challenge is that the Lightweight Migration doesn't actually affect the NSManagedObject class (FormItems).

So the code still uses the sortOrder property. I can run a refactor-rename through XCode to change the code, but will that then break my backwards DB compatibility due to the renaming within the class?

What am I misunderstanding here?

Answer 1

Lightweight migration should work as expected. This statement

The challenge is that the Lightweight Migration doesn't actually affect the NSManagedObject class (FormItems).

is not necessarily true. It LW migration should affect all changed entities.

You can refactor your code to use the new name and

1. Create a new model version.
2. Make the changes to the property after changing to the new model version.
3. Make sure the persistent store has the right options.
   NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption and
   NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption