Getting a count of records in a core data entity

Question

Does anyone know of an existing function or property that provides a count of the records in a Core Data entity?

Answer 1

I believe the best way to accomplish this is through NSManagedObjectContext's countForFetchRequest:error:

It works just like a regular fetch request, except that it only returns the count and presumably could therefore be more optimized.

Answer 2

   func getRecordsCount() {
        let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: _entityName)
        do {
            let count = try context.count(for: fetchRequest)
            print(count)
        } catch {
            print(error.localizedDescription)
        }
    }