NSPredicate to fetch records in alphabetical order in CoreData

Question

I am trying to fetch records from an Entity, the records are huge above 5000. So i want to fetch the records with alphabetically sorted(name paramter) instead of sorting with NSSortDescriptor on result array.

Is there any predicate we can place to fetech records alphabetically sorted.

Answer 1

Set the NSSortDecriptor within your NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest, like you would with any predicate

[fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:@[[[NSSortSDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"name parameter" ascending:YES]]];

This means your request is already sorted like you require as it's being fetched.

As Kaszas has already said, an NSPredicate isn't for sorting, it's for filtering

Hope this helps