Retrive Core Data objects with case insensitive comparison

Jun 1, 2012
#ios #objc

I am currently building an iOS app that uses core data for data persistency. All works great, but as I started adding data and retrieved entities sorted by name, I noticed that the sorting did not work as I expected. The objects came out in a strange order:

Object 1
Object 3
object 2

There is probably some case-sensitive sorting issue showing its ugly face, right. This is the code I used to sort the data:

NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"name" ascending:YES];

The solution was to add selector to the sort, like this:

objc NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"name" ascending:YES selector:@selector(caseInsensitiveCompare:)];`

And voilá - the list will now look like this:

Object 1
object 2
Object 3