Swift Array of objects filtering

Question

I've the following array of objects which I'm trying to filter and return for a searchDosplayController.

var family = [Family]()// fetchedFamily
var filteredFamily: [Family]! // filter fetched events

And that is how, I'm filtering it:

func updateSearchResultsForSearchController(searchController: UISearchController) {
        let searchText = searchController.searchBar.text

        self.filteredProvince = provinces
                if !searchText.isEmpty {
                    let searchPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "name CONTAINS[c] %@", searchText)
                    let array = (filteredProvince as NSArray).filteredArrayUsingPredicate(searchPredicate)
                    filteredProvince = array as! [Province]
}

However nothing is getting returned when I'm searching. And I tried to do it in this way:

filteredFamily = searchText.isEmpty ? family : family.filter({(dataString: String) -> Bool in
           return dataString.rangeOfString(searchText, options: .CaseInsensitiveSearch) != nil
        })

But, I'm receiving the following error: 'Family is not a subtype of String'. Is there any better way to filter the Family? Because, the filtered result has to be sent back to searchDisplayController.

Thanks in advance.

Luca Angeletti · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-17 20:10:04Z

1

So we have a Family class that does look like this right?

class Family {
    let name : String
    init(name:String) {
        self.name = name
    }
}

Then we have a list of families:

var families = [Family]()

And we want to extract all the families where the name property contains a given text.

let searchText = "something here"

Good, first of all we add this extension to the String struct.

extension String {
    func contains(find: String) -> Bool {
        return self.rangeOfString(find) != nil
    }
}

And finally we can filter the families writing:

let filtered = families.filter { $0.name.contains(searchText) }

Hope this helps.

answered Aug 17, 2015 at 20:10

Luca Angeletti

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mkwilfreid Over a year ago

thanks for the attempt but didn't work. The family class is an object of the coredata

mkwilfreid Over a year ago

When searching in the searchDisplayController, only one result got displayed over and over

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