I have an NSArrayController, companiesController
bound to a top level Core Data entity, Companies
.
A Company
has many Department
's, and a Department
has many Employee
; these are represented by the 1-to-many relationships, departments
and employees
.
Based on the attribute salary
of an Employee
I thought I could dynamically do this for filtering based on salary inside a UI-called method:
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"ANY departments.employees.salary < %@", [NSNumber numberWithInt:23000]];
[companiesController setFilterPredicate:predicate];
Alas, this gives me the error: -[NSCFSet compare:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance
.
Multiple to-many keys are not allowed in this case.
Instead, you could do the following:
Code changes (step 3):
//NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"ANY departments.employees.salary < %@", [NSNumber numberWithInt:23000]];
[self setDeptFilter:23000];
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"ANY depts.filter == YES"];
[companiesController setFilterPredicate:predicate];
And the new method (step 2):
- (void)setDeptFilter:(NSUInteger)salary {
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Department" inManagedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];
NSError *error = nil;
// fetch all Department objects
NSArray *array = [self.managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];
[fetchRequest release];
if (error) {
NSLog(@"Error fetching Departments %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
abort();
}
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"ANY emps.salary < %@",[NSNumber numberWithInteger:salary]];
NSArray *filterArray = [array filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
// set filter flag to YES for the departments that meet the criteria
for (Department *dep in filterArray) {
dep.filter = [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES];
}
NSMutableArray *diffArray = [array mutableCopy];
[diffArray removeObjectsInArray:filterArray];
// set filter flag to NO for the departments that do NOT meet the criteria
for (Department *dep in diffArray) {
dep.filter = [NSNumber numberWithBool:NO];
}
[diffArray release];
// save
if ([self.managedObjectContext hasChanges] && ![self.managedObjectContext save:&error]) {
NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
abort();
}
}