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There are many libraries out there that aims to help developers easily create and use SQLite databases. Unfortunately developers still have to get bogged down in simple tasks such as writing table definitions and SQL queries. SwiftyDB automatically handles everything you don't want to spend your time doing.

Features

• Creates and updates databases, tables, and records automatically
• Store any native Swift type
• Supports optional types
• Simple equality-based filtering
• Thread safe database operations
• Complex filtering
• Store nested objects
• Store collections

Usage

Almost pure plug and play. All you have to do is create an instance of SwiftyDB, and everything will be handled automagically behind the scenes 🎩

let database = SwiftyDB(databaseName: "dogtopia")

Add or update a record

try database.addObject(dog, update: true)
try database.addObjects(dogs, update: true)

Retrieve data

Retrieve data with datatypes matching those of the type's properties

/* Array of dictionaries representing `Dog` objects from the database */
database.dataForType(Dog.self)
database.dataForType(Dog.self, matchingFilters: ["id": 1])

Dog data example

[
    "id": 1,                // As an Int
    "name": "Ghost",        // As a String
    "owner": "John Snow",   // As a String
    "birth": August 6, 1996 // As an NSDate
]

Delete records

try database.deleteObjectsForType(Dog.self)
try database.deleteObjectsForType(Dog.self, matchingFilters: ["name": "Max"])

Defining your classes

Let's use this simple Dog class as an example

class Dog {
    var id: Int?
    var name: String?
    var owner: String?
    var birth: NSDate?
}

All objects must conform to the Storable protocol.

public protocol Storable {
    init()
}

By adding the Storable protocol and implementing init(), you are already ready to go.

class Dog: Storable {
    var id: Int?
    var name: String?
    var owner: String?
    var birth: NSDate?
    
    required init() {}
}

SwiftyDB supports inheritance. Valid properties from both the class and the superclass will be stored automatically

Primary keys

It is recommended you can implement the PrimaryKeys protocol. The primaryKeys() method should return a set of property names which uniquely identifies an object.

extension Dog: PrimaryKeys {
    class func primaryKeys() -> Set<String> {
        return ["id"]
    }
}

Ignoring properties

If your class contains properties that you don't want in your database, you can implement the IgnoredProperties protocol.

extension Dog: IgnoredProperties {
    class func ignoredProperties() -> Set<String> {
        return ["name"]
    }
}

Properties with datatypes that are not part of the SQLiteValue protocol, as defined by TinySQLite, will automatically be ignored by SwiftyDB

Retrieve objects

SwiftyDB can also retrieve complete objects with all properties assigned with data from the database. In order to achieve this, the type must be a subclass of NSObject, and all property types must be representable in in Objective-C. This is because pure Swift does not support dynamic, name-based assignment of properties.

Dynamic property types

• Int
• UInt
• Float
• Double
• Bool
• String / String?
• NSNumber / NSNumber?
• NSString / NSString?
• NSDate / NSDate?
• NSData / NSData?

Defining your dynamic classes

Updated Dog class subclassing NSObject, and using valid property types:

class Dog: NSObject, Storable {
    var id: NSNumber? // Notice that 'Int?' is not supported. Use NSNumber? instead
    var name: String?
    var owner: String?
    var birth: NSDate?
    
    override required init() {
        super.init()
    }
}

Retrieve objects

/* Returns an array of Dog objects */
try database.objectsForType(Dog.self)
try database.objectsForType(Dog.self, matchingFilters: ["name": "Max"])

Installation

SwiftyDB is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "SwiftyDB"

Author

Øyvind Grimnes, oyvindkg@yahoo.com

License

SwiftyDB is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.