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Re: Core-data binding to all entities
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Re: Core-data binding to all entities


  • Subject: Re: Core-data binding to all entities
  • From: Stamenkovic Florijan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:37:40 -0400

Martin,

I am actually working on an identical app (as far as your description goes), as a way of learning CoreData, but also to have something to organize my todos and reminders in...

I am dealing with the same problem you describe below, though I took a slightly different approach. I bind the contentSet to the selected Group's notes relationship, but when I unbind it I do not manually fetch all the notes like you do. Instead, my notesController is set to fetch them itself, so I just need to invoke the fetch method. However, for some reason the "canRemove" property of the notes controller turns to NO after I unbind the contentSet, so I also can not delete notes... What is weird is that this only happens after I have had the notesController bound over the groupsController during a run of the app. It seems that switching the content like this is not well supported, and tends to confuse the controller. In that sense I will change my code to perform filtering of notes based on the selection in the outline of groups, as opposed to using this approach.
There is another problem with this approach... For more info see a recent post of mine on the cocoa dev list titled: Dynamic NSArrayContent changing [was: NSTableColumn value binding]


If you like, we can exchange our apps offlist, it might be interesting to compare features etc.

Best regards,

F

-(void)setViewingAllNotes:(NSNumber*)newValue
{
// assign the new values
id oldValue = viewingAllNotes;
viewingAllNotes = [newValue copy];
[oldValue release];

// react appropriately

if([viewingAllNotes boolValue]){

// cache and then remove the current selection of the groups controller
lastSelectedGroupsIndexPaths = [[groupsController selectionIndexPaths] retain];
[groupsController setSelectionIndexPaths:nil];

// re-direct the bindings of the notesController
[notesController unbind:@"contentSet"];
[notesController fetch:self];

}else{

// re-direct the bindings of the notesController
[notesController bind:@"contentSet"
toObject:groupsController
withKeyPath:@"selection.items"
options:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]
forKey:NSDeletesObjectsOnRemoveBindingsOption]];

// restore and then release the last selection of the groups controller
[groupsController setSelectionIndexPaths:lastSelectedGroupsIndexPaths];
[lastSelectedGroupsIndexPaths release];
lastSelectedGroupsIndexPaths = nil;
}
}



On Oct 02, 2009, at 02:39, Martin Hewitson wrote:

Dear list,

I have a simple core-data model with an entity 'Category' and an entity 'Note'. The 'Category' entity has a to-many relationship 'notes' to entity type 'Note'.

The categories are displayed in an outline view via a tree controller. There is also a table which displays the contents of an array controller (NotesArrayController) - this is supposed to show a subset of the notes.

I have a switch on the UI which is meant to let the user choose whether to display all notes in the currently selected category, or all notes from all categories. So I want to modify the content of NotesArrayController depending on the state of the switch.

So far I tried doing this programatically with bindings using the two methods below (actually the switching mechanism is just two buttons). This works as far as displaying the correct content to the user, but when it comes to deleting objects when in 'all categories' mode, it doesn't work properly. I get messages in the console like:

*** -[NSCFArray removeObjectAtIndex:]: mutating method sent to immutable object

So that's pretty clear, and I'm obviously going about this in the wrong way. The question is, what is a proper way to handle this?

Thanks in advance for any constructive comments,

Martin


#pragma mark - #pragma mark Category control

- (IBAction)allCategoriesSelected:(id)sender
{
[singleCategoryButton setState:0];
[allCategoriesButton setState:1];

[notesArrayController unbind:@"contentSet"];
[notesArrayController unbind:@"contentArrayForMultipleSelection"];
[notesArrayController setContent:nil];

NSManagedObjectContext *moc = managedObjectContext;
NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
[request setEntity:[NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Note" inManagedObjectContext:moc]];
NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *results = [moc executeFetchRequest:request error:&error];
if (error) {
[NSApp presentError:error];
[request release];
return;
}

[notesArrayController setContent:results];
[request release];

}


- (IBAction)singleCategorySelected:(id)sender
{
[allCategoriesButton setState:0];
[singleCategoryButton setState:1];

[notesArrayController unbind:@"contentSet"];
[notesArrayController unbind:@"contentArrayForMultipleSelection"];
[notesArrayController setContent:nil];

NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]
forKey:NSDeletesObjectsOnRemoveBindingsOption];

// bind contents to entries in the selected categories
[notesArrayController bind:@"contentSet"
toObject:treeController
withKeyPath:@"selection.notes" options:dict];

// so that multiple selected categories works properly but this is not really
// necessary since we don't allow multiple selection on the outline view at the
// moment.
[notesArrayController bind:@"contentArrayForMultipleSelection"
toObject:treeController
withKeyPath:@"email@hidden"
options:nil];
}
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