i am trying to sort an nsarray of heroes (objects). Each hero is of that kind
@interface Hero : NSObject <NSCoding>
@property (strong,nonatomic) NSString *name;
@property (strong,nonatomic) NSString *correctAnswers;
@property (strong,nonatomic) NSString *falseAnswers;
@property (strong,nonatomic) NSString *bonus;
@property (strong,nonatomic) NSString *level;
-(NSInteger*) inLevel;
+(Hero*) createHero:(NSString*)name
inLevel:(NSString*)level
withBonus:(NSString*)bonus
correctAnswers:(NSString*)correctAnswers
andFalseOnes:(NSString*)falseAnswers;
- (NSString *)description;
@end
To sort an array of these heroes i wrote a sortfunction with two descriptors
-(void) sortHeros {
NSSortDescriptor *level = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"level" ascending:YES comparator:^NSComparisonResult(id a, id b) {
Hero *hero1 = a;
Hero *hero2 = b;
int levelHero1 = [hero1.level intValue];
int levelHero2 = [hero2.level intValue];
if (levelHero1 > levelHero2) {
return (NSComparisonResult)NSOrderedAscending;
} else if (levelHero1 < levelHero2) {
return (NSComparisonResult)NSOrderedDescending;
}
return (NSComparisonResult)NSOrderedSame;
}];
NSSortDescriptor *bonus = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"bonus" ascending:YES comparator:^NSComparisonResult(id a, id b) {
Hero *hero1 = a;
Hero *hero2 = b;
int bonusHero1 = [hero1.bonus intValue];
int bonusHero2 = [hero2.bonus intValue];
if (bonusHero1 > bonusHero2) {
return (NSComparisonResult)NSOrderedAscending;
} else if (bonusHero1 < bonusHero2) {
return (NSComparisonResult)NSOrderedDescending;
}
return (NSComparisonResult)NSOrderedSame;
}];
NSArray *sortedArray;
sortedArray = [self.heros sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:level, bonus, nil]];
self.heros = [sortedArray mutableCopy];
}
Unfotunately it is crashing while sorting an array of 5 objects when calling sortedArrayUsingDescriptors with
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString bonus]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x9674520'
I have no idea what is going wrong. Does anybody can point me on my error?
------- self solution ----------- Hey thanks for pointing to the solution. Here is my correct code for other people having same problem.
@interface Hero ...
-(NSString*) heroBonus;
-(NSString*) heroLevel;
@end
-(void) sortHeros {
NSSortDescriptor *level = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"heroLevel" ascending:NO comparator:^NSComparisonResult(id a, id b) {
int levelHero1 = [a intValue];
int levelHero2 = [b intValue];
...
}];
NSSortDescriptor *bonus = [NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"heroBonus" ascending:NO comparator:^NSComparisonResult(id a, id b) {
int bonusHero1 = [a intValue];
int bonusHero2 = [b intValue];
...
}];
...
}