Filtering Realm objects with Swift - swift

Question

I always get the following error when trying to filter my Realm database using NSPredicate:
Property 'text' is not a link in object of type 'getType'
I want to filter my Realm database to show only the items that have some specific text in them. This is what I've tried:
let realm = try! Realm()
let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "typez.text.filter = 'special'")
let filterThis = realm.objects(Publication).filter(predicate)
print(filterThis)
The relevant portion of my model classes is:
class Publication: Object, Mappable {
dynamic var id: Int = 0
var typez = List<getType>()
dynamic var url: String?
}
class getType: Object, Mappable {
dynamic var text: String = ""
}

Answer 1

You mentioned that the relevant portions of you model classes look like so:
class Publication: Object, Mappable {
dynamic var id: Int = 0
var typez = List<getType>()
dynamic var url: String?
}
class getType: Object, Mappable {
dynamic var text: String = ""
}
If I understand you correctly, you want to find Publication instances that have an entry in their typez list with text equal to special. You can express that as:
let realm = try! Realm()
let result = realm.objects(Publication).filter("ANY typez.text = 'special'")
print(result)

Answer 2

I was not liking the accepted answer here because it doesn't actually answer the question... but then it helped me more than I realized. I will now be using closures instead of NSPredicates whenever possible. The actual answer to this question should be a slightly modified version of #NSGangster's answer:
let realm = try! Realm()
//Array of publications
let realmObjects = realm.objects(Publication)
//any publication where .text property == special will be filtered. and filter out empty array
let filterThis = realmObjects.filter({ $0.typez.filter({ $0.text == "special" } != [] ) })
print(filterThis)
.. or something close to that.
But what I was looking for was a bit different. I needed a way to filter on exact words of a multi-word string, and using an NSPredicate with "CONTAINS" would match any containing substring, e.g. a search for "red" would match "fred". Realm doesn't support "LIKE" or regex yet, so using a closure was the only thing I could get to work:
//I was going for a "related terms" result for a dictionary app
let theResults = terms.filter(
{
//Looking for other terms in my collection that contained the
//title of the current term in their definition or more_info strings
$0.definition.components(separatedBy: " ").contains(term.title) ||
$0.more_info.components(separatedBy: " ").contains(term.title)
}
)
With as much of the day as I spent searching, hopefully this helps someone else with a similar issue.

Answer 3

I don't usually use NSPredicate's directly, instead I do an inline predicate closure within the filter paramter.
let realm = try! Realm()
//Array of publications
let realmObjects = realm.objects(Publication)
//any publication where .text property == special will be filtered. and filter out empty array
let filterThis = realmObjects.filter({ $0.getType.filter({ $0.text == "special" } != [] ) })
print(filterThis)