Get SwiftyJSON to compile on linux (or remove dependency on it)

[dfirsht]

Issue by ricardo-olivieri
Wednesday Jan 06, 2016 at 22:58 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.ibm.com/ibmswift/Phoenix/issues/2

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Some of the Swfit code in the net module depends on the SwiftyJSON library. As of now, we cannot get the SwiftyJSON library to compile.

This issue may have to be revisited. For instance, an alternative to SwiftyJSON is the following library (which is written entirely in Swift): https://github.com/Zewo/JSON. Another alrernative is to simply eliminate any dependencies on 3rd party Swift libraries.

Probably the benefits of using SwiftyJSON are negligible. For instance, when compared to the Gson library, SwiftyJSON does not even provide a quarter of the functionality Gson provides.

[dfirsht]

Comment by dfirsht
Monday Jan 11, 2016 at 20:59 GMT

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we removed all json parsing, removing the need for SwiftyJSON or another 3rd pary library

[dfirsht]

Comment by KALLNER
Wednesday Jan 13, 2016 at 07:27 GMT

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I am porting SwiftJSON to Linux. When I finish the port I will add back all of the JSON parsing in Phoenix.

[dfirsht]

Comment by KALLNER
Wednesday Jan 20, 2016 at 17:11 GMT

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A reminder:

1. Two tests are commented out for now in Tests/BaseTests.swift
2. Several assertions are commented out in Tests/RawRepresentableTests.swift due to lack of bridging
3. Commented out references to self.measureBlock and autorelasingpool in Tests/PerformanceTests.swift

[shmuelk]

The "forked" SwiftyJSON repo now compiles and runs on Linux. On OSX we are using the original one for the time being.