coredata fault messages

Question

I am printing the contents of a managed record to a file. I have one main entity, say, MyAppEntity, and several related entities (People, Place, etc).

I am seeing this output from the file:

/Users/david/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/C9ACA218-F2D6-4623-8CAF-5FE763D10FC8/Documents/
 MyApp-0001 12.01.25 
 Summary goes here... 
 Nothing here yet. 
 Relationship 'people' on managed object (0x79eaf7f0) <NSManagedObject: 0x79eaf7f0> (entity: MyAppEntity; id: 0x79eae950 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/MyAppEntity/p1> ; data: {
    audioName = 00010125121910;
    audioNo = 0;
    date = nil;
    MyApp = "MyApp-0001 12.01.25";
    interpret = "Nothing here yet.";
    keyword =     (
    );
    order = 0;
    people =     (
        "0x79ee42f0 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/PeopleEntity/p1>",
        "0x79ee4300 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/PeopleEntity/p2>"
    );
    place =     (
        "0x79ee6970 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/PlaceEntity/p2>",
        "0x79ee6960 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/PlaceEntity/p1>"
    );
    recurring = 0;
    summary = "Summary goes here...";
    symbol =     (
    );
    type =     (
    );
}) with objects {(
    <NSManagedObject: 0x79ee47e0> (entity: PeopleEntity; id: 0x79ee42f0 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/PeopleEntity/p1> ; data: {
    definition = nil;
    name = me;
    order = 0;
    people = "<relationship fault: 0x79ef5ce0 'people'>";
}),
    <NSManagedObject: 0x79ee4a70> (entity: PeopleEntity; id: 0x79ee4300 <x-coredata:/B86C9CA8-EDE4-452C-BA56-FEF50B4F0FF9/PeopleEntity/p2> ; data: {
    definition = nil;
    name = you;
    order = 1;
    people = "<relationship fault: 0x79e60840 'people'>";
})
)} 

I have two questions... First, what do the fault messages mean? and second, how can I retrieve the values for say people.name or place.name..?

I can post the data model diagram, but it basically looks like this:

MyAppEntity: Attributes: Title Date Details Relationships people, place, etc.

PeopleEntity: Attributes: Name Description Order Relationship: people

PlaceEntity: Attributes: Name Description Order Relationship: place

The relationships are many to many. This is because one task can have many people and the same people can work on multiple tasks.

---

Thanks to Gerry and to Marcus Zarra in another post. I've finally got it.. If it helps others, here is my code:

NSManagedObjectContext *context = [self managedObjectContext];  
    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
    NSEntityDescription *mainEntity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"MainEntity" inManagedObjectContext:context];

    [fetchRequest setEntity:mains]; 
    NSError *error = nil;   
    NSArray *fetchedObjects = [context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];


    NSLog(@"Record Count is: %i", [fetchedObjects count]);

    // THIS ACTUALLY WORKS.....

     for (MainEntity *mains in fetchedObjects) {
     NSLog(@"Main: %@", mains.name);
         NSSet *peopleSet = [mains valueForKey:@"people"];   
         for (id person in peopleSet) {
             NSLog(@"name = %@", [person valueForKey:@"name"]);
         }
         NSSet *keywordSet = [mains valueForKey:@"keyword"];     
         for (id keyWord in keywordSet) {
             NSLog(@"Keyword = %@", [keyWord valueForKey:@"word"]);
         }
         NSSet *placeSet = [mains valueForKey:@"place"];     
         for (id places in placeSet) {
             NSLog(@"Place = %@", [places valueForKey:@"name"]);
         }
         NSSet *symbolSet = [mains valueForKey:@"symbol"];   
         for (id symbols in symbolSet) {
             NSLog(@"Symbol = %@", [symbols valueForKey:@"symbolName"]);
         }
         NSSet *typeSet = [mains valueForKey:@"type"];   
         for (id types in typeSet) {
             NSLog(@"Type = %@", [types valueForKey:@"typeName"]);
         }
     }

    if (!fetchedObjects || error) {
        NSLog(@"[ERROR] COREDATA: Fetch request raised an error - '%@'", [error description]);
        return;
    }

Answer 1

Faults are used so that data can be loaded only when it is needed. When you access the relationship, it will be loaded. See the Faulting and Uniquing in the Core Data Programming Guide.

Once you access the to-many relationship, you will have a set. You can enumerate over the set and access the attributes on the individual managed objects. For example (assuming appObject is an instance of MyAppEntity):

for (id person in [appObject valueForKey:@"people"]) {
    NSLog(@"name = %@", [person valueForKey:@"name"]);
}