Calculate the average of all NSManagedObjects' attributes

Question

I have an entity with the name FoodItem, and it has one attribute, price (a double). Ideally, the output of this code would be:

Average Price is: 6.00

Though I'm not sure how to access the value 6.00. Can anyone assist me? Thank you

Here is my code:

NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"FoodItem" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];

NSManagedObject *o1 = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:[entity name] inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
[o1 setValue:@(5.00) forKey:@"price"];

NSManagedObject *o2 = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:[entity name] inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
[o2 setValue:@(7.00) forKey:@"price"];


[self.managedObjectContext save:nil];

NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
[request setEntity:entity];


[request setSortDescriptors:@[]];

NSExpression *keyPathExpression = [NSExpression expressionForKeyPath:@"price"];
NSExpression *averagePriceExpression = [NSExpression expressionForFunction:@"average:"
                                                              arguments:@[keyPathExpression]];

NSExpressionDescription *expressionDescription = [[NSExpressionDescription alloc] init];
[expressionDescription setName:@"averagePrice"];
[expressionDescription setExpression:averagePriceExpression];
[expressionDescription setExpressionResultType:NSDecimalAttributeType];

[request setPropertiesToFetch:[NSArray arrayWithObject:expressionDescription]];

NSFetchedResultsController *controller = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:request managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:nil cacheName:@"Master"];


[controller performFetch:nil];

NSLog(@"Average price is: %@", @"");

Answer 1

I don't understand why you use a fetch results controller for this. A NSFetchedResultsController is not used for this. Use a simple NSFetchRequest for this.

// Your previous code here

// Execute the fetch.
NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *objects = [managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:request error:&error];
if (objects == nil) {
    // Handle the error.
}
else {
    if ([objects count] > 0) {
        NSLog(@"Average price is: %@", [[objects objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:@"averagePrice"]);
    }
}

A simple example of this can be found from Apple doc Fetching Specific Values.