I'm quite the newbie at Core Data, so please bear with me.
In my Data Model, I have a single entity called "Item", with 2 attributes, "Section" and "Name." I already have the UITableView (my main view) populated using by Name, but I want to divide the TableView into 3 different sections, determined by attribute "section." I'm thinking that the "section" attribute should be an integer, so 0 would be the first section, 1 would be the second and 2 would be the third.
I really am not sure how to divide the TableView into the sections. I'm using NSFetchedResultsController. Here's the current code.
Also, I was wondering if the Fetch Request template inside the data model in Xcode would help out at all. I see how to create the fetch request, but not how to make it do anything with what it fetches (ex: put the fetched data into a certain TableView section.)
If anyone could help out, it would be greatly appreciated.
In my Data Model, I have a single entity called "Item", with 2 attributes, "Section" and "Name." I already have the UITableView (my main view) populated using by Name, but I want to divide the TableView into 3 different sections, determined by attribute "section." I'm thinking that the "section" attribute should be an integer, so 0 would be the first section, 1 would be the second and 2 would be the third.
I really am not sure how to divide the TableView into the sections. I'm using NSFetchedResultsController. Here's the current code.
Code:
- (void)setupFetchedResultsController
{
// 1 - Decide what Entity you want
NSString *dbEntityName = @"Item"; // Put your entity name here
// 2 - Request that Entity
NSFetchRequest *request = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:dbEntityName];
// 3 - Filter it if you want
//request.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"Item.name = what"];
// 4 - Sort it if you want
request.sortDescriptors = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"name"
ascending:YES
selector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)]];
// 5 - Fetch it
self.fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:request
managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext
sectionNameKeyPath:nil
cacheName:nil];
[self performFetch];
}
Also, I was wondering if the Fetch Request template inside the data model in Xcode would help out at all. I see how to create the fetch request, but not how to make it do anything with what it fetches (ex: put the fetched data into a certain TableView section.)
If anyone could help out, it would be greatly appreciated.