NSFetchedResultsController v.s. UILocalizedIndexedCollation

Question

I am trying to use a FRC with mixed language data and want to have a section index.

It seems like from the documentation you should be able to override the FRC\'s

Answer 1

Brent, my solution is based on FRC and I get sectioning from the fetch specifying a transient attribute on my model object that returns the section name for the object. I use UIlocalizedIndexedCollation only in the implementation of the attribute getter then I rely on the FRC implementation on the table view controller. Of course I use localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare as sorting selector on the fetch.

- (NSString *)sectionInitial {

    NSInteger idx = [[UILocalizedIndexedCollation currentCollation] sectionForObject:self     collationStringSelector:@selector(localeName)];
    NSString *collRet = [[[UILocalizedIndexedCollation currentCollation] sectionTitles]     objectAtIndex:idx];

    return collRet;
}

The only drawback I have is that i can't have the # section at the end because I don't change the sorting from the DB. Everything else works well.