CCPhysics collision callback issue - cocos2d-iphone

I have added two objects, each with there own physicsBody. The first one has a collision type Player and the second Enemy. Strangely, the callback isn't working when I set it to:
-(BOOL)ccPhysicsCollisionBegin:(CCPhysicsCollisionPair *)pair Player:(CCNode *)nodeA Enemy:(CCNode *)nodeB
{
return true;
}
but when I set the method to this:
-(BOOL)ccPhysicsCollisionBegin:(CCPhysicsCollisionPair *)pair Player:(CCNode *)nodeA wildcard:(CCNode *)nodeB
{
return true;
}
it works, but obviously I don't want it to be detecting collisions on every object that they player comes into contact with, I just want the collision with the Enemy. To make this more puzzling, I thought that the name might be wrong on the collision type for the Enemy. With the working method listed above I added this:
NSString* nodeAType = [nodeA.physicsBody collisionType];
NSString* nodeBType = [nodeB.physicsBody collisionType];
And sure enough the outputs were Player and Enemy.
The both objects are set as a sensor and not set as static (collision properties).

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