Getting sectionNameKeyPath to work with CoreData/UITableViewController

Question

1. In my AppDelegate I create an NSFetchedResultsController with sectionNameKeyPath set to @"group".
2. In viewWillAppear in my TableViewController I performFetch, then call a method called findGroups.
3. findGroups does some complicated analysis of the entire dataset to identify groups, then sets the "group" transient property on each object to the correct string value. I can see with NSLog that these are all set correctly and in coherent groups.

But, tinker as I may, my cells are shown in a single section with the title of the first group. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have you implemented:

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return [[fetchedResultsController sections] count];
}

You also have the problem that the sectionNameKeyPath can't be a transient value.

Answer 2

Actually, this worked fine for me by adding a step 4: [self.tableView reloadData];