Mantle makes it easy to write a simple model layer for your Cocoa or Cocoa Touch application. Core Data solves certain problems very well. If you need to execute complex queries across your data, handle a huge object graph with lots of relationships, or support undo and redo, Core Data is an excellent fit. If you're just trying to access some JSON objects, Core Data can be a lot of work for little gain. Nonetheless, if you're using or want to use Core Data in your app already, Mantle can still be a convenient translation layer between the API and your managed model objects. In order to serialize your model objects from or into JSON, you need to implement <MTLJSONSerializing> in your MTLModel subclass. Mantle doesn't automatically persist your objects for you. However, MTLModel does conform to <NSCoding>, so model objects can be archived to disk using NSKeyedArchiver.
Features
- Mantle also comes with miscellaneous cross-platform extensions meant to make your life easier
- Mantle doesn't automatically persist your objects for you
- If you are writing an application, add Mantle to your project dependencies directly within Xcode
- If you are writing a package that requires Mantle as dependency, add it to the dependencies list in its Package.swift manifest
- Mantle can be a convenient translation layer between the API and your managed model objects