Cocoa Core Data efficient way to count entities

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I don’t know whether using NSFetchedResultsController is the most efficient way to accomplish your goal (but it may be). The explicit code to get the count of entity instances is below:

// assuming NSManagedObjectContext *moc

NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
[request setEntity:[NSEntityDescription entityForName:entityName inManagedObjectContext:moc]];

[request setIncludesSubentities:NO]; //Omit subentities. Default is YES (i.e. include subentities)

NSError *err;
NSUInteger count = [moc countForFetchRequest:request error:&err];
if(count == NSNotFound) {
  //Handle error
}

[request release];

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