On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:30 PM, David Hoerl wrote:
>> Having the array of attributes unrolled separately is a little odd. Do you
>> mean you have an array of attribute names from, say the entity, and you want
>> to ask a MO for all its non-nil attribute values and get back an array of
>> matching attribute names for those non-nil values?
>
> Specifically, here is what I'm trying to do:
> I have a NSManagedObject "Address" (and no treecontroller) that has
> properties - lets say name, homePhone, and workPhone. workPhone is optional.
> So, one Address record has obj.name = "Joe Blow", obj.homePhone = "555-1212"
> and obj.workPhone = nil
> I put the Address object's property keys in an NSArray *attributes = {
> @"name", @"homePhone", @"workPhone" )
> The exercise is to reduce the attribute array to just the set of keys that
> when applied to the object result in a value - that is, not nil.
Two approaches:
NSDictionary* obj = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Joe
Blow", @"name", @"555-1212", @"homePhone", nil];
NSArray* keys = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"name", @"homePhone",
@"workPhone", nil];
NSPredicate* pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%...@.self !=
nil", obj];
NSLog(@"filtered array results = %@", [keys
filteredArrayUsingPredicate:pred]);
NSComparisonPredicate* exprPred = (NSComparisonPredicate*)[NSPredicate
predicateWithFormat:@"SUBQUERY(self, $key, %...@.$key != nil) == 0", obj];
NSExpression* expr = [exprPred leftExpression];
NSLog(@"expression subquery results = %@", [expr
expressionValueWithObject:keys context:nil]);
- Ben
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