How to print a NSInteger value from an NSManagedObject using NSLog

Question

When I try to print an integer value to the console that is retrieved from an NSManagedObject, it displays a 6 or 8 digit value (the object ID?). However, if I use the debug

Answer 1

What you get from your NSManagedObject would be a NSNumber, I think. It's easy to print that:

MyProcess *myProcess = [array objectAtIndex:i];
NSLog(@"sequence = %@", myProcess.sequence);

or, if you really need the NSInteger:

MyProcess *myProcess = [array objectAtIndex:i];
NSLog(@"sequence = %i", [myProcess.sequence integerValue]);

I think that in this bit of code

NSInteger sequence = [[NSNumber numberWithInteger:(NSInteger)myProcess.sequence] intValue];

the (NSInteger)myProcess.sequence actually gets the memory address of the NSNumber. You can't just cast an NSNumber into an NSInteger.