I've created an NSFetchedResultsController object & loaded it up with data from a Core Data entity (called "AssetsPartners"). This entity has many different attributes, such as name, type, photo, etc.. Currently, I use the name attribute during data fetch and this brings back everything. Now I need to be able to sort what's inside the NSFetchedResultsController when pressing on one of the 3 UISegmentedControl buttons by the 'type' attribute. The type attribute contains only 3 possible values: all, asset & counterparty. Index 0 = "All", index 1 = "Assets", index 2 = "Counterparty". So when the user clicks on index 1, for instance, which is "Assets", I want to pull out only that type of data from my NSFetchedResultsController before displaying that data in the table view. How do I do this?
Here's how I create the NSFetchedResultsController:
-(NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController
{
//Is there already anything in that instance variable? Not equalling to nil means there's something alreayd there. Just return it & we're done.
if (_fetchedResultsController != nil)
{
return _fetchedResultsController;
}
//IF we make it past the previous if statement, we'll have to make the previous object.
//We need a NSFetchRequest & a sort descriptor to create a NSFetchedResultsContoller.
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"AssetsPartners" inManagedObjectContext:[AppDelegate shared].managedObjectContext];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];
//Specify how the fetched objects should be sorted.
NSSortDescriptor *assetName = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"name" ascending:YES]; //type //Sorts data by name. In this case by "name"'s first letter of the alphabet.
[fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:@[assetName]]; //@[fetched, assetType, dateSD];
_fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest
managedObjectContext:[AppDelegate shared].managedObjectContext
sectionNameKeyPath:nil //'nil' brings data back in one long list. But writing "author", for instance, would split data by work written by each different author.
cacheName:nil]; //Not sure what this does...
_fetchedResultsController.delegate = self; //"Look to me for any of your delegate methods".
return _fetchedResultsController;
}
After I have my data, I place it into the table view:
-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
//Has to be here to be accessible by any object that requires it regarding of scope.
AssetsPartners *items;
//Segmented control stuff. Simply filter fetched array data rather than creating everything cell-related from scratch.
if(_segmentedControl.selectedSegmentIndex == 0)
{
items = [_fetchedResultsController objectAtIndexPath:indexPath]; //Ask '_fetchedResultsController' what's at this particular indexPath right now. Also alphabetically sorts the array list.
}
else if(_segmentedControl.selectedSegmentIndex == 1)
{
//Sorts table view alphabetically.
//[self.elements sortUsingDescriptors:@[[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"lastName" ascending:YES]]];
}
else
{
}
CustomTableCell *aCell = (CustomTableCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"CustomCell"]; //Cells are dequeued & reused.
if (aCell == nil)
{
aCell = [[CustomTableCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue1 reuseIdentifier:@"CustomCell"];
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(65.0, 15.0, 150.0, 30.0)];
label.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
label.tag = 999; //Neccessary to have this to by-pass scope & access this label outside this if statement (Chosen number is random).
[aCell.contentView addSubview:label];
//Entirely new UIImageView for every UITableViewCell (to tweak the frame size & position).
UIImageView *newImgView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10.0, 15.0, 35.0, 35.0)];
newImgView.tag = 1000;
[aCell.contentView addSubview:newImgView];
}
//Makes sure the separator doesn't have that little gap in the beginning.
//NOTE: This MUST be here and "_tableView.separatorInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;" must exist inside [self extraTableViewParameter]!
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 8.0)
{
aCell.layoutMargins = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
aCell.preservesSuperviewLayoutMargins = NO;
}
/*CELL DETAILS.*/
aCell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
aCell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor clearColor];
aCell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
/*FILL CELL WITH DATA.*/
aCell.textLabel.text = @"";
NSInteger anInteger = [items.balance integerValue];
aCell.detailTextLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ P", [self addWhitespacesTo:anInteger]];
UILabel *label = (UILabel *)[aCell.contentView viewWithTag:999]; //Casting UILabel to access the previously created one.
label.text = items.name;
//1 - Reduce 'photo' characters to bare essentials. Which is just an image name.
NSString *iconName = [self cutOutString:@"bizzer://" fromString:items.photo]; //Get rid of "bizzer://" from string value.
//2 - Utilize previously created UIImageView for this cell with the image name.
UIImageView *imgView = (UIImageView *)[aCell.contentView viewWithTag:1000];
imgView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:iconName];
[self turnIcon:imgView toColor:items.color];
return aCell;
}
You can update fetchRequest NSPredicate associated with NSFetchResultController. Here is sample code.
-(void)updateFetchRequestForType:(NSString *)type
{
[NSFetchedResultsController deleteCacheWithName:@"Root"];
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"type == %@",type];
[_fetchedResultsController.fetchRequest setPredicate:predicate];
NSError *error = nil;
if (![[self fetchedResultsController] performFetch:&error]) {
NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
abort();
}
[table reloadData];
}
Note: Set your cacheName to Root While initializing NSFetchResultController in your code.