NSPredicate through nested array using the dictionary key - ios

Question

Could someone help me how to predicate through the below data and retrieve the value for the key "Text". Initially i have dictionary with the below data
{
ArrayName1 = (
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "Name1";
Value = 1;
},
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "Name2";
Value = 2;
}
);
ArrayName2 = (
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "Name3";
Value = 3;
},
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "Name4";
Value = 4;
}
);
ArrayName3 = (
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "Name5";
Value = 5;
},
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "Name6";
Value = 6;
}
);
ArrayName4 = (
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "somename";
Value = somevalue;
}
);
ArrayName4 = (
{
Target = "<null>";
Text = "somename";
Value = "somevalue";
}
);
}
I want the end result to be stored in the "resultarray" which should contain value of "Text" key by the search string from all the array and also want to store the corresponding value for the "Value" key in the same array.
Thanks,
Pradeep

Answer 1

#Dev.RK #Cyph3r - Below are the methods i tried. #Dev.RK,#Cyph3r. I tried the below methods including compound predicate.
//Method 1
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"ANY %K.%K CONTAINS[c] %#", #"Practice",#"Text",searchTextString];
searchArray = [[quickSearchDataDict allValues] filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
//Method 2
NSPredicate *predicateArray1 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"(TEXT==%#)",searchTextString];
NSPredicate * predicateArray2 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"SELF.%K.%K contains[c] %#",#"ArrayName2",#"Text",searchTextString];
NSPredicate *compoundPredicate = [NSCompoundPredicate orPredicateWithSubpredicates:#[predicateArray1,predicateArray2]];
searchArray = [[quickSearchDataDict allValues] filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];

Answer 2

Try this, hope this will solved your problem-
NSMutableDictionary *dict=[[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
for (int i=0; i<5; i++) {
NSMutableArray *ary=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
for (int j=0; j<2; j++) {
NSMutableDictionary *dic=[[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
[dic setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"none"] forKey:#"Target"];
[dic setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"tst%d",j] forKey:#"Text"];
[dic setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d",j+i] forKey:#"Value"];
[ary addObject:dic];
}
[dict setObject:ary forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"ArrayName%d",i]];
}
NSArray *searchary=[dict valueForKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",#"ArrayName0"]];
NSPredicate *pre0 = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:#"SELF.%K contains[cd] %#",#"Text", #"tst"];
NSArray *resultArray= [searchary filteredArrayUsingPredicate:pre0];
NSLog(#"%#",resultArray);
here is the log-
1. Text==tst0
(
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 0;
}
)
2. Text==tst
(
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 0;
},
{
Target = none;
Text = tst1;
Value = 1;
}
)
and this is complete data-
{
ArrayName0 = (
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 0;
},
{
Target = none;
Text = tst1;
Value = 1;
}
);
ArrayName1 = (
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 1;
},
{
Target = none;
Text = tst1;
Value = 2;
}
);
ArrayName2 = (
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 2;
},
{
Target = none;
Text = tst1;
Value = 3;
}
);
ArrayName3 = (
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 3;
},
{
Target = none;
Text = tst1;
Value = 4;
}
);
ArrayName4 = (
{
Target = none;
Text = tst0;
Value = 4;
},
{
Target = none;
Text = tst1;
Value = 5;
}
);
}