BackboneSwift is a simple REST client inspired by Backbone JS. BackboneSwift offers a combination between Alamofire , PromiseKit and SwiftyJSON that will allow you create models and collection easly.
Declare your custom models and collections
import BackboneSwift
// Declare a model that inherits from BackboneSwit.
class Repo : Model {
var name: String = ""
var html_url: String = ""
var score:Int = 0
}
class Repositories: BaseCollection <Repo> { // create the collection
}And just use them:
//GET example in a tableViewController
var githubRepositories = Repositories(baseUrl:"https://api.github.com/search/repositories")
override func viewDidLoad() {
// Use the HttpOptions to add a query
let requestOptions = HttpOptions(queryString: "q=language:swift&sort=stars&order=desc")
// HTTP GET
githubRepositories.fetch(usingOptions:requestOptions).then { (repos:Repositories, _) -> Void in //Asynch call back
self.tableView.reloadData()
}.catch { (error) in
// This will always get called if something goes wrong
print(error)
}
}Other HTTP methods:
// POST
Repo().create().then { (repo:Repo, metadata:ResponseMetadata) -> Void in
// do whatever you want
}
// DELETE
Repo().delete().then { (repo:Repo, metadata:ResponseMetadata) -> Void in
// do whatever you want
}
// UPDATE
Repo().save().then { (repo:Repo, metadata:ResponseMetadata) -> Void in
// do whatever you want
}Swift is a strong typed lang that could get very tricky when creating an object from a json file. BackboneSwift abstracts that complexity away by handling with the optionals unwraping , the responses of http connections and the asynch of all of them. BackboneSwift also offers a Promise oriented sintaxis to avoid the 'callback hell'. We are big fans of using promises in Swift.
just copy this into your pod file
$ pod 'BackboneSwift'
Download the code and install the pod file. pod install
Run the test target or use the Demo app included
Fer Canon , Miguel Martin , Mario Rosales
Copyright 2017 Fer Canon
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