I tried to use NSCompoundPredicate(orPredicateWithSubpredicates:)
with CloudKit
NSPredicate
but then I read on Apple's documentation that OR
comparison predicates aren't supported in CloudKit
so I hit a road-block with this.
I have an array of CKReferences
that I need to see if a Record-type
of Reference list
contains those references.
I'm struggling on how to assemble the predicate itself , because I'm trying to avoid nested-queries in the completionBlock
.
let's say I have the following array of references:
let refs = [CKReference]() // in my case the array isn't empty
I tried the following but it didn't worked, because somehow it only looks for the first object of the array, and not the whole array.
let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "tableName CONTAINS %@", argumentArray: refs)
Here if I print the predicate
it prints:
tableName CONTAINS CKReference: 0x600000229c40; 20B54862-46CC-405F-BAE8-0DC8D3A52F78:(_defaultZone:defaultOwner)>
As you can see, it only looks for the first object in the array.
It may work if I use the ANY
operator in the predicate, something like:
let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "ANY { '%@', '%@' } = tableName", args: refs[0], refs[1])
But my problem here is how can I build that predicate, since the refs
array is dynamic and I don't know how many objects it may contain , and by that I don't know how to build the predicate args
accessing the [0], [1], ...
of the refs
array.
Do you have any workaround with this? Or a best way to approach this issue?
Thank you.
EDIT
I figure out a way to solve this issue, but I don't know if that's the most efficient one, so I'm still opened to answers and opinions.
Here's my temporary solution:
for (i, reference) in refs.enumerated() {
let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "tableName CONTAINS %@", reference)
// CKQuery
// CKQueryOperation
// Database.add(CKQueryOperation)
if i == refs.count - 1 {
// UPDATE UI
}
}
NSMutableArray * tagsReferencesArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[tagsReferencesArray addObject:tag100_Reference];
[tagsReferencesArray addObject:tag300_Reference];
[tagsReferencesArray addObject:tag200_Reference];
predicate= [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"ANY %@ in field_TagsReferenceList ", tagsReferencesArray];