I have the choice of doing a migration, but I would prefer to delete everything in my defaultRealm(). How can I do this easily?
realm.deleteObject(object)
is the only function along with .deleteObjects.
I have tried the following code:
Method 1
realm.deleteObjects(RLMObject.objectsInRealm(realm, withPredicate: NSPredicate(value: true)))
Method 2
realm.deleteObjects(Dog.allObjectsInRealm(realm))
realm.deleteObjects(Person.allObjectsInRealm(realm))
realm.deleteObjects(Goal.allObjectsInRealm(realm))
realm.deleteObjects(Goals.allObjectsInRealm(realm))
Both fail to prevent the migration exception.
Use deleteAll()
:
let realm = try! Realm()
try! realm.write {
realm.deleteAll()
}
As of v0.87.0, there is a deleteAllObjects
method on RLRealm
that will clear the Realm of all objects.
Things have moved on in the Realm world - in case anyone comes across this now, there is a property that can be set:
Realm.Configuration.defaultConfiguration.deleteRealmIfMigrationNeeded = true
It then does as advertised. (btw: a lot of the syntax above has changed in case you are trying any of the other methods)
The Github PR https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/pull/3463
I think removing the Realm DB file is the valid answer considering that the question was about removing a whole storage rather than migrating it.
Here is a quick Swift code for that (as of Swift 2.1 and Realm 0.96.2):
if let path = Realm.Configuration.defaultConfiguration.path {
try! NSFileManager().removeItemAtPath(path)
}
I use this code in the DEBUG version of the app if the migration error happens on loading the storage and then I recreate the storage. During development the schema can change a lot, so it would be too cumbersome to bother with migration all the time.