Question

I have a large number of Items in the core data.

Each Item has an attribute called “Source”, which is a string, indicating the Source this item belongs to.

When I fetch from the core data, I will fetch items from 10 sources (totally over 200 sources) each time and each time the 10 sources are randomly chosen before fetching.

How can I write the NSPredicate for this case?

If each time only fetch items from 1 source, it is easy:

NSPredicate *pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"Source like %@", @"source1"];

But what if it is 10 sources and change over time? do I need to write like

NSPredicate *pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(Source like %@) AND (Source like %@) AND...", @"source1", @"source3", ...];

Thanks

Answer 1

NSPredicate *p=[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"source in %@", anArrayOfSourceStrings];