Core Data - How to fetch an entity with max value property

Question

I have a entity Person with a property personId (personId is unique)

How can I fetch the Person with the max personId?

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Answer 1

The answer given above using NSExpression is correct. Here is the Swift version.

private func getLastSyncTimestamp() -> Int64? {

let request: NSFetchRequest = NSFetchRequest()
request.entity = NSEntityDescription.entity(forEntityName: "EntityName", in: self.moc)
request.resultType = NSFetchRequestResultType.dictionaryResultType

let keypathExpression = NSExpression(forKeyPath: "timestamp")
let maxExpression = NSExpression(forFunction: "max:", arguments: [keypathExpression])

let key = "maxTimestamp"

let expressionDescription = NSExpressionDescription()
expressionDescription.name = key
expressionDescription.expression = maxExpression
expressionDescription.expressionResultType = .integer64AttributeType

request.propertiesToFetch = [expressionDescription]

var maxTimestamp: Int64? = nil

do {

    if let result = try self.moc.fetch(request) as? [[String: Int64]], let dict = result.first {
       maxTimestamp = dict[key]
    }

} catch {
    assertionFailure("Failed to fetch max timestamp with error = \(error)")
    return nil
}

return maxTimestamp
}

where moc is a NSManagedObjectContext.