Question

I am not quite sure how to word this question without explaining what I am trying to do.

I have a managed object context filled with (essentially) circles that have an x,y coord for the center point and a radius.

I would like to construct a predicate for my core data retrieval that will find all circles that overlap with a given circle.

I can write a boolean method that tests this and returns true or false, but my problem is that I don’t know how to call this testing method in my predicate.

in pseudo-code, I am trying to do this:

NSPredicate *pred = [NSPredicate (if [testOverlapWithCenterAt:centerOfGivenObjectInContext andRadius:radiusOfGivenObjectInContext]);

Perhaps NSPredicate isn’t even the best way to do this. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use the predicateWithBlock instance method of NSPredicate. Give it a try.