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CoreData: sorting on a computed attribute
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CoreData: sorting on a computed attribute


  • Subject: CoreData: sorting on a computed attribute
  • From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:11:59 -0700

I have a need to sort a CoreData table on one attribute in a table that needs to be derived from a calculation. I read about "Non-Standard Persistent Attributes" and did google and the only way I found to make it work is according to the following:

So, suppose I have an entity "Entity":

@implementation Entity

@dynamic attribute1;
@dynamic attribute2;
@synthesize positive;
@synthesize negative;
@dynamic net_count;

- (void)setPositive:(NSNumber *)newPositive
{
	[self willChangeValueForKey:@"positive"];
	positive = newPositive;
	[self didChangeValueForKey:@"positive"];
	[self willChangeValueForKey:@"net_count"];
	self.net_count = [NSNumber numberWithInteger:self.positive.integerValue - self.negative.integerValue];
	[self didChangeValueForKey:@"net_count"];
}

- (void)setNegative:(NSNumber *)newNegative
{
	[self willChangeValueForKey:@"negative"];
	negative = newNegative;
	[self didChangeValueForKey:@"negative"];
	[self willChangeValueForKey:@"net_count"];
	self.net_count = [NSNumber numberWithInteger:self. positive.integerValue - self.negative.integerValue];
	[self didChangeValueForKey:@"net_count"];
}

@end

That seems to work. Records appear in the right order.

Is there anything that I'm doing wrong with the above?

I initially tried to provide a dynamic value when net_count was called, e.g. implementing an accessor like:

- (NSNumber *)net_count
{
	return [NSNumber numberWithInteger:self.positive.integerValue - self.negative.integerValue];
}

But the records were not ordered properly.

-Laurent.
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