[oneearedrabbit]

I second your sentiment that it is a hack, and here be dragons. At the same time, I had an honest conversation with myself about the dilemma, and whether I am worried about changes to the database or not. I ended up answering that it is a low-risk factor especially for the project of that kind.

I am sure that Apple won’t be making any substation breaking changes to a database structure unless they have to, there is a price to pay. Such changes will always be tied to a major macOS/iPhone release, and it doesn't happen very often.

That said, I had to put this project on the back burner, it was not immediately clear what is the ROI especially considering there is a long tail of databases to parse. It starts with Mountain Lion and then adds up quickly.

I need to release my source code to Github--ORM approach was worth exploring, it is a concise declaration that is relatively easy to update and manage.