CopyingCodable.swift

import Foundation
import CoreData

class CopyingCodable : Encodable, Decodable, NSCopying
{
    func copy(with zone: NSZone? = nil) -> Any
    { //this is like...the ugliest code I've ever written
        return try! JSONDecoder().decode(
            type(of: self),
            from: try! JSONEncoder().encode(self)
        )
    }
}