Question

I would like to know how to fetch unique field values (song_type) from core data.

i have the below code for that

NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Songs" inManagedObjectContext:myManagedObjectContext];

    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc]init];
    [fetchRequest setPropertiesToFetch:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"song_type"]]; 
    [fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

    NSError *aError;

    NSMutableArray *fetchedResultsArray = [[myManagedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&aError]mutableCopy];

    if(! fetchedResultsArray ){
        NSLog(@"EEEERRROR");
    }
    else {
        NSLog(@"fetched %d", [fetchedResultsArray count]);
    }

    [fetchedResultsArray release];
    [fetchRequest release];

i am getting the below error

Terminating app due to uncaught exception
‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘Invalid keypath song_type
passed to setPropertiesToFetch:’

Answer 1

Set following 2 properties and you are done.

fetchRequest.returnsDistinctResults = YES;
fetchRequest.resultType = NSDictionaryResultType;

Hope this helps.

EDIT

NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest= [[NSFetchRequest alloc]init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Songs" inManagedObjectContext:myManagedObjectContext];

//Take properties dictionary
NSDictionary *entityProperties = [entity propertiesByName];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];
[fetchRequest setReturnsDistinctResults:YES];
[fetchRequest setPropertiesToFetch:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[entityProperties objectForKey:@"song_type"]]];
NSArray * result = [myManagedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:nil];