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sagar
sagar

Reputation: 121

create a Compound Predicate in coreData xcode iphone

HI i am working on the core data with 3 entities (Class,Students,ExamRecord) and their relations area as :

Class<------>> Students <------> ExamRecord

I created a predicate for fetching list of students for class 5th.

NSString * fmt2 = @"studentsToClass.className=%@";
NSPredicate * p2 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:fmt2,@"5th",nil];

with this i am getting all students of class 5th

Now i also want to apply another filter on the Students fetched.

Fetch students whose Exam Record "result" is "Pass".result is an attribute for student in ExamResult entity

How can i make use of Compound predicate in this ?

Please correct me if i am wrong

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

Upvotes: 9

Views: 13451

Answers (4)

jeet.chanchawat
jeet.chanchawat

Reputation: 2585

Predicates can also be nested using compounded predicates (For Swift)

        let orPredicate = NSCompoundPredicate(type: .or, subpredicates: [date_1KeyPredicate, date_2KeyPredicate])

        let functionKeyPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "function_name = %@", self.title!)

        let andPredicate = NSCompoundPredicate(type: .and, subpredicates: [orPredicate, functionKeyPredicate])

Upvotes: 0

Fogmeister
Fogmeister

Reputation: 77651

First, you shouldn't really call the student - class relation studentsToClass. The name of the relation should reflect what type of object is at the other end.

E.g.

In this case the Student relation to Class should be called class because the object there is a single Class entity. The inverse relation should not be called classToStudent it should be called students because the object there is a NSSet of multiple Students.

EDIT

Just to add to this. The name of the relation should explain WHY it is there. We can see that the relation is from class to student but if you call it "classToStudent" it doesn't explain anything. Also, what if you have a second relation from class to student? What do you call that. If you call it attendees or pupils or attendingStudents etc.. it gives the relation meaning.

SOLUTION

In this example I'm going to call them how I would call them and you will see it makes it a bit easier to understand...

Anyway...

NSPredicate *classPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"class.className = %@", @"5th"];
NSPredicate *passPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"result.name = %@", @"Pass"];

NSCompoundPredicate *compoundPredicate = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates:@[classPredicate, passPredicate]];

Upvotes: 2

Mundi
Mundi

Reputation: 80271

First, your quoted predicate is really already wrong. You should reference the managed object, not its property (i.e. not the name of the Class). It should be:

[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"class = %@", classObject];

Also, you should really choose more readable names for your variables and property. So, not fmt2 but formattingString. Not studentsToClass but form ("class" is a special word in objective-C). You get the idea.

So your desired compound predicate is done like this (short version): 

[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"class = %@ && record.result = %@",
         classObject, @"Pass"];

The complicated version, if you really need a higher level of abstraction (which I doubt): 

classPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"class = %@", classObject]; 
resultPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"record.result = %@", @"Pass"];
finalPredicate = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates:
    @[classPredicate, resultPredicate]];

Upvotes: 0

Martin R
Martin R

Reputation: 539975

You can use a compound predicate:

NSPredicate *p1 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"studentsToClass.className = %@", @"5th"];
NSPredicate *p2 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"studentsToExamRecord.result = %@", @"Pass"];
NSPredicate *p = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates: @[p1, p2]];

Or you simply combine the tests with "AND":

NSPredicate *p = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"studentsToClass.className = %@ AND studentsToExamRecord.result = %@",
      @"5th", @"Pass"];

Note that the argument list of predicateWithFormat is not nil-terminated. The number of arguments is determined by the number of format specifiers in the format string.

Upvotes: 30

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