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

NSInteger is just an int:

typedef int NSInteger;

In your first line of code:

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

All you are doing is assigning sequence to itself, in a round about way. And since it's not initialized, it might be any random number.