通过核心数据中的属性获取对象

Question

在我的iPhone项目中，我想编写一个函数，检查Core Data ManagedObjectContext中是否存在某个特定值的对象，如some_property。

如果已经有一个对象some_property == 12，我想让该函数返回该对象，否则，我想创建该对象，或者至少返回nil。

我该怎么做？

Answer 1

以下片段显示如何检索匹配特定谓词的对象。如果没有这样的对象，代码片段展示了如何创建一个新的对象，保存并返回它。

NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init]; 
    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"YourEntityName" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext]; 
    [request setEntity:entity]; 
    // retrive the objects with a given value for a certain property 
    NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat: @"property == %@", value]; 
    [request setPredicate:predicate]; 

    // Edit the sort key as appropriate. 
    NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"yourSortKey" ascending:YES]; 
    NSArray *sortDescriptors = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil]; 
    [request setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors]; 



    // Edit the section name key path and cache name if appropriate. 
    // nil for section name key path means "no sections". 
    NSFetchedResultsController *aFetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:request managedObjectContext:managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:nil cacheName:@"Root"]; 
    aFetchedResultsController.delegate = self; 

    NSError *error = nil; 
    NSArray *result = [managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:request error:&error]; 

    [request release]; 
    [sortDescriptor release]; 
    [sortDescriptors release]; 


    if ((result != nil) && ([result count]) && (error == nil)){ 
     return [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:result]; 
    } 
    else{ 
     YourEntityName *object = (YourEntityName *) [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"YourEntityName" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext]; 
      // setup your object attributes, for instance set its name 
      object.name = @"name" 

      // save object 
      NSError *error; 
      if (![[self managedObjectContext] save:&error]) { 
      // Handle error 
      NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]); 

      } 

      return object; 

    } 

Answer 2

如果您想检查本地数据的某些属性，最好不要多次抓取。只需使用预先填充的数组执行一个获取请求，然后迭代或过滤结果。

这是从核心数据编程指南代码段“实现查找 - 或 - 创建高效”：

// get the names to parse in sorted order 
NSArray *employeeIDs = [[listOfIDsAsString componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"] 
     sortedArrayUsingSelector: @selector(compare:)]; 

// create the fetch request to get all Employees matching the IDs 
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[[NSFetchRequest alloc] init] autorelease]; 
[fetchRequest setEntity: 
     [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Employee" inManagedObjectContext:aMOC]]; 
[fetchRequest setPredicate: [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat: @"(employeeID IN %@)", employeeIDs]]; 

// make sure the results are sorted as well 
[fetchRequest setSortDescriptors: [NSArray arrayWithObject: 
     [[[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey: @"employeeID" 
       ascending:YES] autorelease]]]; 
// Execute the fetch 
NSError *error; 
NSArray *employeesMatchingNames = [aMOC 
     executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];