UserDefaultsStore

tl;dr

You love Swift's Codable protocol and use it everywhere, who doesn't! Here is an easy and very light way to store and retrieve -reasonable amount 😅- of Codable objects, in a couple lines of code!

Installation

CocoaPods

To integrate UserDefaultsStore into your iOS project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

pod 'UserDefaultsStore'

Carthage

To integrate UserDefaultsStore using Carthage, add the following to your Cartfile:

github "omaralbeik/UserDefaultsStore"

Manually

Add the Sources folder to your Xcode project.

Usage

Let's say you have 2 structs; User and Laptop defined as bellow:

struct User: Codable {
    var id: Int
    var firstName: String
    var lastName: String
    var laptop: Laptop?
}

struct Laptop: Codable {
    var model: String
    var name: String
}

Here is how you store them in UserDefaultsStore:

1. Conform to the Identifiable protocol and set the idKey property

The Identifiable protocol lets UserDefaultsStore knows what is the unique id for each object.

struct User: Codable, Identifiable {
    static let idKey = \User.id
    ...
}

struct Laptop: Codable, Identifiable {
    static let idKey = \Laptop.model
    ...
}

• Notice how User uses Int for its id, while Laptop uses String. Swift rocks 🤘

2. Create UserDefaults Stores

let usersStore = UserDefaultsStore<User>(uniqueIdentifier: "users")!
let laptopsStore = UserDefaultsStore<Laptop>(uniqueIdentifier: "laptops")!

3. Voilà, you're all set!

let macbook = Laptop(model: "A1278", name: "MacBook Pro")
let john = User(userId: 1, firstName: "John", lastName: "Appleseed", laptop: macbook)

// Save an object to a store
try! usersStore.save(john)

// Save an array of objects to a store
try! usersStore.save([jane, steve, jessica])

// Get an object from store
let user = store.object(withId: 1)

// Get all objects in a store
let laptops = laptopsStore.allObjects()

// Delete an object from a store
usersStore.delete(withId: 1)

// Delete all objects in a store
laptops.deleteAll()

// Know how many objects are stored in a store
let usersCount = usersStore.objectsCount

Requirements

• iOS 8.0+ / macOS 10.10+ / tvOS 9.0+ / watchOS 2.0+
• Xcode 9+
• Swift 4+

Thanks

Special thanks to Paul Hudson for his article on how to use Swift keypaths.

License

UserDefaultsStore is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.