Create a property for the target class that concatenates the text value of all the other properties of interest, and then search on that?
On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:46 AM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:10:10 -0800 > From: Mike Chambers <mikechamb...@gmail.com> > Subject: Search multiple / all properties in single NSPredicate > statement > To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > Message-ID: > <844fa2bc1001121710y1603e480rcc3147de3eaf5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I am using NSPredicate to filter Mutable Arrays of objects. This works > great. However, I have a need to filter on multi object properties in > the Array. Basically, a full text search of the object properties. > > I know I can do this by creating a compound predicate for each field, > but I wanted to check and see if there was an easier way to accomplish > this. > > I tried to use a wildcard for the keypath: > > [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat@"* == 'foo']; > > But, that doesnt work. Looking at the docs, I dont see a way to do > this, but wanted to ping the list. > > So, is there anyway to search multiple / all object fields in a single > predicate statement? _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
