On Mar 12, 2010, at 5:37 AM, Alexander Spohr wrote:

> Am 12.03.2010 um 04:34 schrieb Eli Bach:
> 
>> The operators mentioned on this page, particularly "@unionOfSets".
>> 
>> <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/KeyValueCoding/Concepts/ArrayOperators.html>
>> 
>> I have the following Core Data object's setup
>> 
>> ClassA       ClassB          ClassC
>> relationA  -->       relationB --> relation C
>> 
>> where each of the relations is a many to one [one class A, many class B, and 
>> one class B, many class C].
>> Not all ClassB's will have ClassC objects attached to them
>> 
>> I have an instance of classA, and I want an NSArrayController with all the 
>> ClassC objects for all the ClassB objects that are related to that specific 
>> instance of ClassA, preferably in a way that uses KVO instead of 
>> programmatically updating with fetches/predicates/etc.
>> 
>> What would be the right way to bind the NSArrayController, assuming the nib 
>> owner has an instance of classA:
> 
> How about Owner.instanceOfA.relationB.relationC ?
> If you ask an array for a key path you get a new array containing the 
> resulting objects.
> You don’t need any operators.

I'll try this, but I don't expect it to work, because there can be 0 or more 
relationB object's, and each of those object's can have 0 or more relationC 
objects, and just 'plain' dot syntax won't produce a superset of relationC 
objects (from my understanding of KVO and KVC).

Eli

>> ie:
>> 
>> bind content set to
>> 
>> File Owner.instanceOfA.?

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