Question

In fetchedResultsController while setting the NSSortDescriptor iam getting this error unsupported NSSortDescriptor (comparator blocks are not supported).

NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription
                               entityForName:@"Alarm" inManagedObjectContext: managedObjectContext];
[fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

//Below code is not working and causing error. sorting use the hours&seconds part of the time attribute  

NSSortDescriptor *sort = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc]
                          initWithKey:@"time" ascending:YES comparator:^NSComparisonResult(id obj1, id obj2) {

                                  NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
                                  NSDateComponents *components1 = [calendar components:(NSHourCalendarUnit|NSMinuteCalendarUnit) fromDate:obj1];
                                  NSDateComponents *components2 = [calendar components:(NSHourCalendarUnit|NSMinuteCalendarUnit) fromDate:obj2];
                                  NSDate *date1 = [calendar dateFromComponents:components1];
                                  NSDate *date2 = [calendar dateFromComponents:components2];


                                  return [date1 compare:date2];

                          }];

Answer 1

You can’t use sort descriptors with comparator blocks everywhere – for instance not with Core Data fetches.

They work fine when you filter normal arrays, though.

Apart from that – was there a question in there that I overlooked?