My UITableView is displaying the wrong order of my FQL query [closed]

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            if(sort)
            {
                fql1 = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELECT uid,pic_square, name,online_presence FROM user WHERE is_app_user AND uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) ORDER BY last_name"];
            } else {
                fql1 = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELECT uid,pic_square, name,online_presence FROM user WHERE is_app_user AND uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) ORDER BY first_name"];
            }
            NSMutableDictionary * params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                            fql1, @"q",
                                            nil];// fql query to fetch the user friend's

The UITableView is displaying the wrong order. How can I fix it to display the correct order?

--- CODE FOR UITableView

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    ProfileTableViewCell * cell = nil;
    NSString *cellid = @"ProfileTableViewCell";
    cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellid];

    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[ProfileTableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellid];
    }

    [cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue];

    Friends *friendsObj = [self.friendsArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    [cell setCellContentWithuser:friendsObj];

    return cell;
}

------------- Code to ProfileTableViewCell @interface ProfileTableViewCell : UITableViewCell {

    __weak IBOutlet UIImageView * imgvwUserPhoto;
    IBOutlet UILabel * labelForUserName;
    IBOutlet UIImageView * imgvwOnlinePresence;

}

- (void) setCellContentWithuser:(Friends*)friendsObj;

@end

My result is a tableview of friends that are always in the same sort order

Here is the list of my friends

Fa Hu
Ma Ku
Me Ma
Me Sh
Sy Ma

------ ProfileTableViewCell

-(NSArray *)getAllFriendsfromFriendsTable{

    NSFetchRequest *request = [self getBasicRequestForEntityName:@"Friends"];
    NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"status=='1'"];
    NSSortDescriptor *catrgoryDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"facebook_name" ascending:YES];
    NSArray *sortDescriptors = @[catrgoryDescriptor];
    [request setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors];
    [request setPredicate:predicate];
    NSArray *results = [_managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:request error:nil];
    return results;
}

How do I sort this with my NSPredicate? The name is just 1 word. So I may need to split it and then sort by last name. (or first)

Answer 1

1. Make sure the FQL is correct
2. Make sure your results don't get handled by a dictionary or set - these don't respect order of the items (because of their data type) so you'll lose ordering there
3. If it's still a problem, simply sort your array