Question

This is a simple question, however one that I cannot find the answer to.

I’m building an app that stores data on Projects and People, which is stored within a SQLite database using Core Data.

A project can have many people, however a person is only assigned to one project. I’m displaying the data in a Table View, which at the moment displays ALL the people stored in a database whenever you view any project – this is not ideal.

I would like to only display those people who are part of that project. How would I go about this programatically? is this done using filtering? for example:

- (void)setupFetchedResultsController
{
    // 1 - Decide what Entity you want
    NSString *entityName = @"People"; // Put your entity name here
    NSLog(@"Setting up a Fetched Results Controller for the Entity named %@", entityName);

    // 2 - Request that Entity
    NSFetchRequest *request = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:entityName];

    // 3 - Filter it if you want
    //request.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"people.name = someones name"];

    // 4 - Sort it if you want
    request.sortDescriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"lastName"
                                                                                     ascending:YES
                                                                                      selector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)]];
    // 5 - Fetch it
    self.fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:request
                                                                        managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext
                                                                          sectionNameKeyPath:nil
                                                                                   cacheName:nil];


    [self performFetch];
}

Answer 1

You need a predicate, which acts as a filter. See the docs on NSPredicate.

The predicate must refer to the project you are interested in. From the small amount of code that you have shown, you might try something like this (the details depend on your own implementation).

request.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"people.project = %@", projectName"];