How to Deal with Temporary NSManagedObject instances?

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I need to create NSManagedObject instances, do some stuff with them and then trash them or store to sqlite db. The problem is, I cannot create instances of NSManagedObject unconnected to NSManagedObjectContext and this means I have to clear up somehow after I decide that I don't need some of the objects in my db.

To deal with it, I have created an in-memory store using the same coordinator and I'm placing temporary objects there by using assignObject:toPersistentStore. Now, how do I ensure that these temporary objects don't get to the data, which I fetch from the common to both stores context? Or do I have to create separate contexts for such a task?

UPD:

Now I'm thinking about making separate context for in-memory store. How do I move objects from one context to another? Just using [context insertObject:]? Will it work OK in this setup? If I insert one object from the graph of objects, does the whole graph also get inserted into context?

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I am rewriting this answer for Swift as all similar questions for swift redirect to this question.

You can declare the object without any ManagedContext using the following code.

let entity = NSEntityDescription.entity(forEntityName: "EntityName", in: myContext)
let unassociatedObject = NSManagedObject.init(entity: entity!, insertInto: nil)

Later on, to save the object you can insert it into the context and save it.

myContext.insert(unassociatedObject)
// Saving the object
do {
    try self.stack.saveContext()
    } catch {
        print("save unsuccessful")
    }
}
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