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8.2.2 The whole API

• valueForKey() gets a value for a given attribute's name,
• takeValueForKey() sets a value for a given attribute's name,
• valueForKeyPath() is working the same way than valueForKey, except that the key can be here expressed by dotted notation to automatically access an other related object's property (such as: "author.lastName" for a Book object -see examples, below)
• takeValueForKeyPath() is like takeValueForKey with dotted notations

Additionally, two more methods are available:

• valuesForKeys(): returns the list of values taken by the supplied attributes
• takeValuesFromDictionary(): sets each key/attribute with its corresponding value

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Release 0.9, documentation updated on March 4, 2006.

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