Deleting Core Data objects from a SwiftUI view

How can you delete objects from a Core Data repository? Removing objects is almost as important as adding them. In this recipe, we'll learn how to integrate the Core Data delete options into a SwiftUI app.

Getting ready

Create a SwiftUI app called DeleteContacts.

Before we start this recipe, complete Steps 1 to 7 of the Showing Core Data objects with @FetchRequest recipe. Then, you can complete this recipe.

How to do it…

We are going to reuse part of the code provided in the Showing Core Data objects with @FetchRequest recipe. Please refer to that recipe if you want to find out more.

Let's get started:

1. In the ContentView struct, add the list of contacts via the @FetchRequest property wrapper:

   struct ContentView: View {
       @FetchRequest(
           sortDescriptors: [
               ...