Core Data: keypath name not found in entity

Question

I'm crashing with this message :

'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'keypath name not found in entity

Obvisouly I'm not querying my entity correctly .

//fetching Data

NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];

NSManagedObjectContext *context = [(AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] managedObjectContext];

NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Viewer" inManagedObjectContext:context];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

NSString *attributeName = @"dF";

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"name like %@",attributeName];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:predicate];

NSLog(@"predicate : %@",predicate);
NSError *error;
NSArray *items = [context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];
NSLog(@"items : %@",items);

[fetchRequest release];
    
//end of fetch

And here is my data Model:

I want to return the value of "dF", shouldn't call it like this ? :

NSString *attributeName = @"dF";
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"name like %@",attributeName];

Answer 1

If you want to get value from your dF property, you have to fetch an array of NSManagedObjects and then use [fetchedManagedObject valueForKey:@"dF"]; to get your value.

NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSManagedObjectContext *context = [(AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] managedObjectContext];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Viewer" inManagedObjectContext:context];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];
NSArray *items = [context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];
[fetchRequest release];

NSManagedObject *mo = [items objectAtIndex:0];  // assuming that array is not empty
id value = [mo valueForKey:@"dF"];

Predicates are used to get array of NSManagedObjects that satisfy your criteria. E.g. if your dF is a number, you can create predicate like "dF > 100", then your fetch request will return an array with NSManagedObjects that will have dF values that > 100. But if you want to get just values, you don't need any predicate.