I have the following core data model:

where Person to Codes is a one-to-many relationship.

I have a function which returns a Person record and if the code person.codes returns an NSSet of all the codes associated with that Person. The issue that I am having is how to use the NSSet.

person.codes.allObjects.first returns this data:

<Codes: 0x60000213cb40> (entity: Codes; id: 0xb978dbf34ddb849 <x-coredata://A2B634E4-E136-48E1-B2C5-82B6B68FBE44/Codes/p1> ; data: {

    code = 4LQ;

    number = 1;

    whosAccount = "0xb978dbf34ddb869 <x-coredata://A2B634E4-E136-48E1-B2C5-82B6B68FBE44/Person/p1>";

})

I thought if I made person.codes.allObjects.first of type Codes, I would be able to access the code and number elements but I get an error: error: value of type 'Any?' has no member 'number'

Also, how can I search this data set for a particular code or number.

I appreciate that this is proabably a simple question but have searched and read the documentation to no avail. I suspect that may base knowledge is not sufficient.

Update

I have a CoreDataHandler class which contains the following code:

class CoreDataHandler: NSObject {

    //static let sharedInstance = CoreDataHandler()



    private static func getContext() -> NSManagedObjectContext {

        let appDelegate = NSApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate



        return appDelegate.persistentContainer.viewContext

    }



    static func fetchPerson() -> [Person]? {

        let context = getContext()



        do {

            let persons: [Person] = try context.fetch(Person.fetchRequest())

            return persons

        } catch {

            return nil

        }

    }

I can fetch a person using:

let row = personTableView.selectedRow

let person = CoreDataHandler.fetchPerson()?[row]

Core Data supports widely native Swift types.

Declare codes as Set<Codes> in the Person class.

It's much more convenient than typeless NSSet.

You get a strong type and you can apply all native functions like filter, sort, etc. without type cast.

let codes = person.codes as! Set<Code>

Once that is done you can access the properties. Searching can be done by filtering for instance

let filteredCodes = codes.filter({ $0.code == "XYZ" })

will return all objects that has the code "XYZ". Or to get only one you can use

let code = codes.first(where: {$0.id == 1})

which will return the first object that has id = 1

A simple example getting all Person objects that has a given code

func findWithCode(_ code: String) -> [Person] {

    guard let persons = CoreDataHandler.fetchPerson() else {

        return 

    }



    var result = [Person]()

    for person in persons {

        let codes = person.codes as! Set<Code>

        if codes.contains(where: { $0.code == code }) {

            result.append(person)

        }

    }



    return persons

}