Is there any way we can restrict duplicate entries in core data?

Question

I have been trying to add objects in core data. So, i want that it should not allow duplicate entries in core data store. How to do that? This is my code related to save data.

Answer 1

As there is no built in method available, you need to fetch results and check whether result contains object you don't want to be duplicated.

Here is code snippet:

-(void)checkForDuplicates
{
    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Students"
                                          inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext];

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

    NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"students"
                                                               ascending:NO];
    NSArray *sortDescriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:sortDescriptor];

    [request setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors];
    [sortDescriptor release];

    NSError *Fetcherror;
    NSMutableArray *mutableFetchResults = [[managedObjectContext
                                        executeFetchRequest:request error:&Fetcherror] mutableCopy];

   if (!mutableFetchResults) {
        // error handling code.
    }

    if ([[mutableFetchResults valueForKey:@"users"]
         containsObject:name.text]) {
        //notify duplicates
        return;
    }
    else
    {
         //write your code to add data
    }
}

Hope this may help you!