Problem retrieving data while multi threading

I am using multithreading while loading data from the database.

I am doing the following

Code:

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), 
               ^{
                   // Get data
                   NSDate *pastDate = [CommonHelper getSelectedDateYearBackComponents:[NSDate date]];
                   NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"users == %@ && startDate >= %@", objUser,pastDate];
                   NSMutableArray *fetchArray = [DataAccess searchObjectsInUserContext:@"userIngo" :predicate :@"startDate" :NO];
                
                   if ([fetchArray count] > 0)
                   {
                       dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), 
                                     ^{
                                         // Reload table
                                         [self.tableView reloadData]; });
                   }

                   else 
                   {
                       dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), 
                        ^{  // calling Webservice
                         });
                   }
                });

and my searchObjectsInUserContext code is like this

Code:

+(NSMutableArray *) searchObjectsInLabContext: (NSString*) entityName : (NSPredicate *) predicate : (NSString*) sortKey : (BOOL) sortAscending
 {
i3EAppDelegate *appDelegate = (i3EAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];

NSManagedObjectContext *context = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init];
[context setUndoManager:nil];
[context setPersistentStoreCoordinator:[appDelegate persistentStoreCoordinator]];

// Register context with the notification center
NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[nc addObserver:self selector:@selector(mergeChanges:) name:NSManagedObjectContextDidSaveNotification object:context];

NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:entityName inManagedObjectContext:context];
[request setEntity:entity]; 
[request setFetchBatchSize:10];
[request setReturnsObjectsAsFaults:NO];

// If a predicate was passed, pass it to the query
if(predicate != nil)
{
    [request setPredicate:predicate];
}

// If a sort key was passed, use it for sorting.
if(sortKey != nil)
{
    NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:sortKey ascending:sortAscending];
    NSArray *sortDescriptors = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil];
    [request setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors];
    [sortDescriptors release];
    [sortDescriptor release];
}

NSError *error;

NSMutableArray *mutableFetchResults = [[context executeFetchRequest:request error:&error] mutableCopy];

if (mutableFetchResults == nil) {

    // Handle the error.
    // NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
    exit(-1);  // Fail

}

[request release];
appDelegate = nil;

return [mutableFetchResults autorelease];
  }

So in my searchObjectInUserContext I use multiple managedObjectContext so that it does not create problems for me while multithreading as explained by Fred McCann in his blog post.

However, my problem is at NSMutableArray *mutableFetchResults in my searchObjectsInUserContext because it returns 0 at times even though there is data in the database.

Can someone help me with what I am doing wrong?

 

actually I did exactly that and the mutableFetchResults is indeed zero. I have updated my entire code with what I use. Please see if that helps.

I noticed that if I reload the table, the values get displayed. is it maybe that I am not reloading it properly the first time?