Consider a Core Data model with two Entities: TermDictionary and Term. The TermDictionary has a "name" property, and a one-to-many relationship called "terms" which points to a set of Term objects, each of which consists of two properties: "name" and "score".
I've got an NSFetchRequest which I'm using as a data source for a UITableView which displays all of the TermDictionaries in the database. The idea is that the table will, for each cell, display the name of the dictionary, along with a count of the number of terms in that dictionary.
In the following code snippet, item contains an NSFetchRequestResult for the "TermDictionary" entity:
let thisDict = item as! TermDictionary
cell.textLabel?.text = thisDict.name
cell.detailTextLabel?.text = "\(thisDict.terms?.count ?? 0) terms"
...The table cells are correctly displaying the names of the Term Dictionaries, however it looks like thisDict.terms is always coming up nil, so the number-of-terms label always shows zero.
Do I need do do something special with item rather than just casting it to my TermDictionary managed object subclass?
You do not need to do anything special. If thisDict.terms prints as nil, it really is nil. Check your data store.