Can I, in some way, use static functions like this one in a SwiftUI view

public func getExercisesAsArray() -> [Exercise] {
        let request: NSFetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<Exercise>(entityName: "Exercise")
        request.shouldRefreshRefetchedObjects = true
        request.includesPropertyValues = true
        let context = container.viewContext
        
        do {
            let fetchedExercises: [Exercise]  = try context.fetch(request) as [Exercise]
            return fetchedExercises
        } catch let error as NSError {
            fatalError("Error fetching Profile for doesProfileExist(): (error), (error.userInfo)")
        }
    }

Doesn’t seem like I can since it keeps returning nil even though there is entities matching the request in CoreData. In my unit tests functions like this one works fine.

I looked up some simple examples of fetching in SwiftUI but id much rather use the core data functions I have already made to interact with the backend. By having to write these fetch-request up in each view Im also going to have to re-write a lot of boiler plate worsening readability and taking more time.