ANDYFetchedResultsTableDataSource

How much does it take to insert a NSManagedObject into CoreData and show it in your UITableView in an animated way (using NSFetchedResultsController, of course)?

100 LOC? 200 LOC? 300 LOC?

Well, ANDYFetchedResultsTableDataSource does it in 71 LOC.

#pragma mark - Lazy Instantiation

- (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController
{
    if (_fetchedResultsController) {
        return _fetchedResultsController;
    }

    NSManagedObjectContext *context = [[ANDYDataManager sharedManager] mainContext];
    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:@"Task"];
    fetchRequest.sortDescriptors = @[[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"date" ascending:YES]];
    _fetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest
                                                                    managedObjectContext:context
                                                                      sectionNameKeyPath:nil 
                                                                               cacheName:nil];
    return _fetchedResultsController;
}

- (ANDYFetchedResultsTableDataSource *)dataSource
{
    if (_dataSource) {
        return _dataSource;
    }

    _dataSource = [[ANDYFetchedResultsTableDataSource alloc] initWithTableView:self.tableView 
                                                      fetchedResultsController:self.fetchedResultsController
                                                                cellIdentifier:ANDYCellIdentifier];
    _dataSource.configureCellBlock = ^(UITableViewCell *cell, Task *task) {
        cell.textLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ - %@", task.title, task.date];
    };
    return _dataSource;
}

#pragma mark - View Lifecycle

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [self.tableView registerClass:[UITableViewCell class] forCellReuseIdentifier:ANDYCellIdentifier];
    self.tableView.dataSource = self.dataSource;

    UIBarButtonItem *addTaskButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd 
                                                                                   target:self
                                                                                   action:@selector(createTask)];
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = addTaskButton;
}

#pragma mark - Actions

- (void)createTask
{
    [ANDYDataManager performInBackgroundContext:^(NSManagedObjectContext *context) {
        Task *task = [Task insertInManagedObjectContext:context];
        task.title = @"Hello!";
        task.date = [NSDate date];
        [context save:nil];
    }];
}

Attribution

Based on the work of the awesome guys at objc.io.

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