FetchedResults to Array

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Created Jun ’22

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So I have a core data entity titled recipe. I'm trying to make a search bar to search the list of recipes and my method of doing so is doing a fetch request of all objects and converting it to an array of those objects and then filtering the array and displaying the results. Any idea as to how to convert a type fetch results to an array?

PS: as I'm typing this it occurred to me I could just do a for each loop and add them to the array as I go, but is there a quicker way to do this? Like a function? Thanks!!!

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SimplyKyra OP

Jun ’22

Just to confirm you have an NSSet of objects and you can't turn it into an array, right? Getting an error/warning for Cast from 'NSSet?' to unrelated type '[EntityName]' always fails...

There's a parameter allObjects on, at least, the Core Data relationship NSSet that you can use to convert it to an array. In my case I use it when taken a set of Entities from a relationship. So:

FirstEntityName?.relationshipNameWithNSSet?.allObjects as? [SecondEntityName]

If they NEED a result I sometimes use ?? [SecondEntityName]() to create an empty default array.

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