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Apocal
Apocal

Reputation: 172

Saving MultiDimensional Arrays to Storage

I am building a puzzle in Swift that I would like to store a multiDimensional Array to storage. I have a number of options for this including NSDefaults, Core, Plists, among others. I know that if I do this in NSDefaults that I am essentially bringing the multiDimensional array back out and saving it each time I make a change. This could be disk intensive.

The MultiDimensional Array would be: [30x20] in size. Any recommendations on how best to store this.

I've tried looking at a number of guides and while NSDefaults looks to be the easiest I am concerned about the performance (and I'd like to learn how to do it the right way).

Any guidance is greatly appreciated. I was able to get Core working, but nothing this complex.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 797

Answers (2)

Pawan Kumar
Pawan Kumar

Reputation: 558

Declare properties as show in above image & set custom Class as Array<Array<Any>> in Attributes model:

Declare properties in CoreDataProperties class like:
@NSManaged public var routes: Array<Array<Any>> //

Usages:

While using initialise properties like:

<your_rroperty_name> = obj["routes"] as? [[String]] ?? [[]]

Upvotes: 3

Apocal
Apocal

Reputation: 172

I actually tried a number of ways including core data, plists, sqlite, and ultimately ended up using Realm. It was much easier than the others and is really fast. I highly recommend it if you're getting stuck on this like I was:

https://realm.io/docs/swift/latest/

I am actually removing all of my plists in favor of Realm at this point due to the ease of use and simple view.

Upvotes: 0

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