Prevent duplicates when importing RSS feed to Core Data

Question

Trying to import a RSS feed into Core Data. Once they are imported, when trying to update the feed again afterwards, how do I most efficiently prevent duplicates. Right now

Answer 1

When you are importing a new row you can run a query against the existing rows to see if it is already in place. To do this you create a NSFetchRequest against your entity, set the predicate to look for the guid property and set the max rows returned to 1.

I would recommend keeping this NSFetchRequest around during your import so that you can reuse it while going through the import. If the NSFetchRequest returns a row you can update that row. If it does not return a row then you can insert a new row.

When done correctly you will find the performance more than acceptable.

Answer 2

Can you modify your core data model ?

If you can I would add a "Hash" property to each feed entry to uniquely identify it. Then you could efficiently detect wether a specific entry is already in your database or not.