Equality of Two NSMutableSets Using Custom Class A

Question

How do you check if two NSMutableSets are equal (same members, same number of members)?

My implementation of isEqualToSet does not seem to be working.

// members is a NSMutableSet of AUser objects

// users is also a NSMutableSet of AUser objects, it is an attribute of instances of the AGroup class

[[group valueForKey:@"users"] isEqualToSet:members]


AGroup
- users

AUser
- name  (String)

How do I check if the sets are equal by checking their name attributes?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, it's my first time with iOS programming, so I only know the basics at the moment.

Answer 1

If you want to check if the corresponding name attributes are identical, the following should work:

[[group valueForKeyPath:@"users.name"] isEqualToSet:[members valueForKey:@"name"]]

[group valueForKeyPath:@"users.name"] returns the set of the names of all users in the group, and [members valueForKey:@"name"] returns the set of the names of all users in the members set.

Update: As it became clear in the comments, members is a set of strings, and not a set of user objects. Therefore the code simplifies to:

[[group valueForKeyPath:@"users.name"] isEqualToSet:members]