IOS Parse how do I retrieving objects from a query

Question

I have two classes User and Post. The User class has a userType field and I want to retrieve all of the posts from a given userType lets call them group x. In the Post class I have a pointer to the User class.

I was trying to do something like, first retrieve all user Ids for the type of user I want:

PFQuery *queryUser = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:kFTUserClassKey];
[queryUser whereKey:kFTUserTypeKey equalTo:kFTUserTypeX];
[queryUser whereKey:kFTUserLocationKey nearGeoPoint:nearGeoPoint withinMiles:miles];
[queryUser findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSArray *usersTypeX, NSError *error) {
            if (!error) {
                NSMutableArray *objectIds = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

                // Add ambassador ids into query
                for (PFObject *userX in usersTypeX) {
                    [objectIds addObject:[PFObject objectWithoutDataWithClassName:kFTUserClassName objectId: userX.objectId]];
                }
            }
}];

And then I wanted to query based on these objectIds but I am not sure how to query on this array or if this is even the correct way to do this. How can this be done?

Answer 1

Parse provides a matchesQuery method on query, so ...

PFQuery *innerQuery = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"User"];
[innerQuery whereKey:@"userType" equalTo:@"X"];  // fix with your real user type
PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Post"];
[query whereKey:@"user" matchesQuery:innerQuery];
[query findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSArray *posts, NSError *error) {
    // posts are posts where post.user.userType == X
}];