Question

    req = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];

    // entity
    ent = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Medicine" inManagedObjectContext:context];
    [req setEntity:ent];

    // predicate
    pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"date > %@",referenceDate];
    [req setPredicate:pred];

    // sort descriptor
    sorter = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"date" ascending:YES];
    [req setSortDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:sorter, nil]];

    NSFetchedResultsController *frc = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:req managedObjectContext:context sectionNameKeyPath:@"date" cacheName:@"asdsad"];
    NSLog(@"%@",[frc fetchedObjects]); // returns (null)

    //NSArray *frc = [context executeFetchRequest:req error:nil];
    //NSLog(@"%@",frc); // returns 4 objects

As you can see by my code I’ve got two different bits at the end.

The first code (uncommented) returns null in the NSLog.

The second code (commented) returns an array of 4 objects from the context.

Any reason why this is happening? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Because you need to do one more thing: performFetch.

Here’s the details in the docs:

performFetch:
Executes the receiver’s fetch request.

• (BOOL)performFetch:(NSError **)error
  Parameters
  error
  If the fetch is not successful, upon return contains an error object that describes the problem.
  Return Value
  YES if the fetch executed successfully, otherwise NO.

Discussion
After executing this method, you can access the receiver’s the fetched objects with the property fetchedObjects.