Swift Tip: Codable Enums In this post from Objc.io, we learn how to add Codable conformance to enums which have associated types. A very useful tip. Posted on January 29, 2018 #enum #codable
Swift Codable With Custom Dates Another useful post from Keith Harrison of Use Your Loaf. This time Keith shows us how to use Swift 4’s Codable protocols to decode JSON which contains date values in more than one format. Posted on December 14, 2017 #codable #date
Why Dictionary sometimes encodes itself as an array Oleb Begemann with a very interesting post on why Swift dictionaries sometimes encode themselves as arrays when using Swift 4’s Codable protocols. I wasn’t aware of this limitation, and as he points out, there is no clean and simple fix for it. Posted on December 6, 2017 #codable #enum
SingleValueCodable - A simple exercise in leverage A single-value wrapper type is a type which encapsulates only a single property. Dealing with such types when using Swift’s Codable protocols can lead to less than perfect representations of the type’s data. In this post, Russ Bishop works through a small exercise in extending Codable to better such types. Posted on October 27, 2017 #codable
Codable Enums Swift 4’s Codable protocols make it very easy to encode and decode conforming types, even working with enums when the enums rawValue also conforms to Codable. However, things get a little bit more complicated when dealing with enums which have associated values. This post from Little Bites of Cocoa shows us how we can handle such a situation. Posted on October 7, 2017 #codable #swift4 #enum
When JSONDecoder meets the real world, things get ugly… Dave Lyon looks at decoding real-world API data using Swift 4’s Codable protocols. He explains why dealing with real-world JSON data might not be as simple as some of the examples we may have seen, and shows us how we can avoid common pitfalls. Posted on October 1, 2017 #codable #swift4 #json
Using Swift Codable With Property Lists Swift 4’s Codable protocols are a fantastic addition to the language, allowing us to easily encode/decode types to/from external formats. In this post from Use Your Loaf, we learn how to use the new Codable protocols to encode/decode data to/from Cocoa property lists. Posted on September 1, 2017 #codable #swift4
Codable Dates Jake Marsh learns how to easily encode/decode Dates when using Swift 4’s Codable protocols. As he says, we have all had to handle some crazy date format when working with HTTP APIs, but with Swift 4, this should become less painful. A useful little bite of Cocoa. Posted on August 25, 2017 #codable #swift4
Swift.Codable Swift 4 includes some really exciting additions, one of these being it’s Codable protocol, which allows us to easily encode/decode our custom types to data types such as JSON. In this edition of his Q&A series of articles, Mike Ash looks at exactly how Swift’s new encoding systems works, and how we can implement the protocols ourselves to support a custom data format. Posted on July 19, 2017 #swift4 #codable
JSON with Encoder and Encodable Great post from Greg Heo in which he looks at the magic that is JSON encoding in Swift 4. He walks through every step in the process of encoding a single Int value to JSON, and looks at the implementation. There are some twists, with parts of the implementation probable not being what you expect. An informative and fun read. Posted on July 4, 2017 #swift4 #JSON #codable