Delete/Reset all entries in Core Data?

Question

Do you know of any way to delete all of the entries stored in Core Data? My schema should stay the same; I just want to reset it to blank.

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Edit

I'm looking to do this programmatically so that a user can essentially hit a reset button.

Answer 1

Works with all versions. Pass entity name and iterate through to delete all the entries and save the context.

func deleteData(entityToFetch: String, completion: @escaping(_ returned: Bool) ->()) {
    var context = NSManagedObjectContext()
    if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
        context = self.persistentContainer.viewContext
    } else {
        context = self.managedObjectContext
    }

    let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>()
    fetchRequest.entity = NSEntityDescription.entity(forEntityName: entityToFetch, in: context)
    fetchRequest.includesPropertyValues = false
    do {
        let results = try context.fetch(fetchRequest) as! [NSManagedObject]
        for result in results {
            context.delete(result)
        }
        try context.save()
        completion(true)
    } catch {
        completion(false)
        print("fetch error -\(error.localizedDescription)")
    }
}

Answer 2

Here is combined solution for purging Core Data.

- (void)deleteAllObjectsInCoreData
{
    NSArray *allEntities = self.managedObjectModel.entities;
    for (NSEntityDescription *entityDescription in allEntities)
    {
        NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
        [fetchRequest setEntity:entityDescription];

        fetchRequest.includesPropertyValues = NO;
        fetchRequest.includesSubentities = NO;

        NSError *error;
        NSArray *items = [self.managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];

        if (error) {
                NSLog(@"Error requesting items from Core Data: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
            }

        for (NSManagedObject *managedObject in items) {
            [self.managedObjectContext deleteObject:managedObject];
        }

        if (![self.managedObjectContext save:&error]) {
            NSLog(@"Error deleting %@ - error:%@", entityDescription, [error localizedDescription]);
        }
    }  
}

Answer 3

As a quick reference to save searching elsewhere - recreating the persistent store after deleting it can be done with:

if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeURL options:nil error:&error]) {
// do something with the error
}

Answer 4

swift solution:

class func deleteAllManagedObjects() {

        let modelURL = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("some string", withExtension: "mom")
        let mom = NSManagedObjectModel(contentsOfURL: modelURL)

        for entityName in mom.entitiesByName.keys {
            let fr = NSFetchRequest(entityName: entityName as String)
            let a = Utility.managedObjectContext().executeFetchRequest(fr, error: nil) as [NSManagedObject]
            for mo in a {
                Utility.managedObjectContext().deleteObject(mo)
            }
        }

        Utility.managedObjectContext().save(nil)
    }

Answer 5

MagicalRecord makes this very easy.

[MyCoreDataObject MR_truncateAll];

Answer 6

If you want to go the delete all objects route (which is much simpler than tearing down the Core Data stack, but less performant), than this is a better implementation:

- (void)deleteAllManagedObjectsInModel:(NSManagedObjectModel *)managedObjectModel context:(NSManagedObjectContext *)managedObjectContext
{
    NSBlockOperation *operation = [NSBlockOperation blockOperationWithBlock:^{
        [managedObjectContext performBlockAndWait:^{
            for (NSEntityDescription *entity in managedObjectModel) {
                NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [NSFetchRequest new];
                [fetchRequest setEntity:entity];
                [fetchRequest setIncludesSubentities:NO];
                NSArray *objects = [managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:nil];
                for (NSManagedObject *managedObject in objects) {
                    [managedObjectContext deleteObject:managedObject];
                }            
            }

            [managedObjectContext save:nil];
        }];
    }];
    [operation setCompletionBlock:^{
        // Do stuff once the truncation is complete
    }];
    [operation start];
}

This implementation leverages NSOperation to perform the deletion off of the main thread and notify on completion. You may want to emit a notification or something within the completion block to bubble the status back to the main thread.