Key-Value-Observing a to-many relationship in Cocoa

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You need to implement the indexed array accessors as defined in the KVC programming guide. Then you must use those accessors to access the array and the KVO triggering will work. You can also call -mutableArrayValueForKey: and use that array to addObject: and such and it will in turn call the accessor methods and the KVO triggering will occur as well. There are also set accessors for use in for NSSets, see here and here.

Example:

@interface MyClass : NSObject
{
    NSMutableArray *_orders;
}

@property(retain) NSMutableArray *orders;

- (NSUInteger)countOfOrders;
- (id)objectInOrdersAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index;
- (void)insertObject:(id)obj inOrdersAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index;
- (void)removeObjectFromOrdersAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index;
- (void)replaceObjectInOrdersAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index withObject:(id)obj;


@end

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