Question

I have an Artist object with a .localConcerts fetched property (basically a subset of the full .concerts set), can I use that property inside my NSFetchedResultsController predicate?

Here’s what I’m trying:

NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];

NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Artist" inManagedObjectContext:context];
[request setEntity:entity];

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"localConcerts.@count > 0"];
[request setPredicate:predicate];

fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc]
                            initWithFetchRequest:request
                            managedObjectContext:context
                            sectionNameKeyPath:nil
                            cacheName:nil];

But I’m getting:

'keypath localConcerts not found in entity <NSSQLEntity Artist id=1>'

Am I missing anything or is it just not possible to use fetched properties inside predicates?

Answer 1

Apparently NSPredicate can only filter using attributes that are in the database structure (this makes sense). In my case, using a subquery did the trick:

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SUBQUERY(shows, $show, $show.distance < %@).@count > 0", [SWDataManager sharedManager].localFilterDistance];

I had no idea we could do subqueries in NSPredicate, that’s great to know. Credits go to @kyleve.