AnyRealmCollection

The type of the objects contained within the collection.

Creates an AnyRealmCollection wrapping base.

The Realm which manages the collection, or nil if the collection is unmanaged.

Indicates if the collection can no longer be accessed.

The collection can no longer be accessed if invalidate() is called on the containing realm.

The number of objects in the collection.

A human-readable description of the objects contained in the collection.

Returns the index of the given object, or nil if the object is not in the collection.

Returns the index of the first object matching the given predicate, or nil if no objects match.

Returns a Results containing all objects matching the given predicate in the collection.

Returns a Results containing the objects in the collection, but sorted.

Objects are sorted based on the values of the given key path. For example, to sort a collection of Students from youngest to oldest based on their age property, you might call students.sorted(byKeyPath: "age", ascending: true).

Returns a Results containing the objects in the collection, but sorted.

Returns the minimum (lowest) value of the given property among all the objects in the collection, or nil if the collection is empty.

Returns the maximum (highest) value of the given property among all the objects in the collection, or nil if the collection is empty.

Returns the sum of the values of a given property over all the objects in the collection.

Returns the average value of a given property over all the objects in the collection, or nil if the collection is empty.

Returns the object at the given index.

Returns a RLMIterator that yields successive elements in the collection.

The position of the first element in a non-empty collection. Identical to endIndex in an empty collection.

The collection’s “past the end” position. endIndex is not a valid argument to subscript, and is always reachable from startIndex by zero or more applications of successor().

Returns an Array containing the results of invoking valueForKey(_:) with key on each of the collection’s objects.

Returns an Array containing the results of invoking valueForKeyPath(_:) with keyPath on each of the collection’s objects.

Invokes setValue(_:forKey:) on each of the collection’s objects using the specified value and key.

Registers a block to be called each time the collection changes.

The block will be asynchronously called with the initial results, and then called again after each write transaction which changes either any of the objects in the collection, or which objects are in the collection.

The change parameter that is passed to the block reports, in the form of indices within the collection, which of the objects were added, removed, or modified during each write transaction. See the RealmCollectionChange documentation for more information on the change information supplied and an example of how to use it to update a UITableView.

At the time when the block is called, the collection will be fully evaluated and up-to-date, and as long as you do not perform a write transaction on the same thread or explicitly call realm.refresh(), accessing it will never perform blocking work.

Notifications are delivered via the standard run loop, and so can’t be delivered while the run loop is blocked by other activity. When notifications can’t be delivered instantly, multiple notifications may be coalesced into a single notification. This can include the notification with the initial collection.

For example, the following code performs a write transaction immediately after adding the notification block, so there is no opportunity for the initial notification to be delivered first. As a result, the initial notification will reflect the state of the Realm after the write transaction.

let results = realm.objects(Dog.self)
print("dogs.count: \(dogs?.count)") // => 0
let token = dogs.observe { changes in
    switch changes {
    case .initial(let dogs):
        // Will print "dogs.count: 1"
        print("dogs.count: \(dogs.count)")
        break
    case .update:
        // Will not be hit in this example
        break
    case .error:
        break
    }
}
try! realm.write {
    let dog = Dog()
    dog.name = "Rex"
    person.dogs.append(dog)
}
// end of run loop execution context

You must retain the returned token for as long as you want updates to be sent to the block. To stop receiving updates, call invalidate() on the token.

Returns if this collection is frozen.

Returns a frozen (immutable) snapshot of this collection.

The frozen copy is an immutable collection which contains the same data as this collection currently contains, but will not update when writes are made to the containing Realm. Unlike live collections, frozen collections can be accessed from any thread.