Action Codable

With Action Codable and Action Data Providers, build your data model objects as simple struct or class objects and inherit from ADDataTable, then use Action Controlsto quickly create, insert, update, delete and maintain the tables and records in the underlying data source. For example:

import Foundation
import ActionUtilities
import ActionData

class Category: ADDataTable {
    
    enum CategoryType: String, Codable {
        case local
        case web
    }
    
    static var tableName = "Categories"
    static var primaryKey = "id"
    static var primaryKeyType: ADDataTableKeyType = .computedInt
    
    var id = 0
    var added = Date()
    var name = ""
    var description = ""
    var enabled = true
    var highlightColor = UIColor.white.toHex()
    var type: CategoryType = .local
    var icon: Data = UIImage().toData()
    
    required init() {
        
    }
}

This includes support for complex tables with nested objects, arrays and dictionaries and complex relationships such as one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many. For example:

import Foundation
import ActionUtilities
import ActionData

struct Address: Codable {
    var addr1 = ""
    var addr2 = ""
    var city = ""
    var state = ""
    var zip = ""
}

class Person: ADDataTable {
    
    static var tableName = "People"
    static var primaryKey = "id"
    static var primaryKeyType = ADDataTableKeyType.autoUUIDString
    
    var id = UUID().uuidString
    var firstName = ""
    var lastName = ""
    var addresses: [String:Address] = [:]
    
    required init() {
        
    }
    
    init(firstName: String, lastName:String, addresses: [String:Address] = [:]) {
        self.firstName = firstName
        self.lastName = lastName
        self.addresses = addresses
    }
}

class Group: ADDataTable {
    
    static var tableName = "Groups"
    static var primaryKey = "id"
    static var primaryKeyType = ADDataTableKeyType.autoUUIDString
    
    var id = UUID().uuidString
    var name = ""
    var people = ADCrossReference<Person>(name: "PeopleInGroup", leftKeyName: "groupID", rightKeyName: "personID")
    
    required init() {
        
    }
    
    init(name: String, people: [Person] = []) {
        self.name = name
        self.people.storage = people
    }
}

Action Codable includes the following elements:

• ADKey
• ADRecord
• ADRecordSet
• ADInstanceArray
• ADInstanceDictionary
• ADEncodingStorage
• ADDecodingStorage
• SQLite
• SPON

Shared Elements

These are common elements shared across all custom coders in the Action Codable suite.

ADKey

Defines a Coding Key for use when providing a custom Coder for Action Data types. This includes the standard key used for a “super encoder”, a string value used for path type keys (KeyedEncodingContainers) and an integer value used for index type keys (UnkeyedEncodingContainers).

ADRecord

Defines a ADRecord as a dictionary of Key/Value pairs where the Key is a String and the Value is Any type. A ADRecord can be returned from or sent to a ADDataProvider or any of the Action Codable controls.

Example:

let provider = ADSQLiteProvider.shared
let record = try provider.query("SELECT * FROM Categories WHERE id = ?", withParameters: [1])
print(record["name"])

ADRecordSet

Defines an array of ADRecord instances that can be sent to or returned from a ADDataProvider or any of the Action Codable controls.

Example:

let provider = ADSQLiteProvider.shared
let records = try provider.getRows(Category.self)
 
for record in records {
 print(record["name"])
}

ADInstanceArray

Defines a passable array of values used as temporary storage when encoding or decoding an Action Data class. ADInstanceArray also introduces support for the new Swift Portable Object Notation (SPON) data format that allows complex data models to be encoded in a portable text string that encodes not only property keys and data, but also includes type information about the encoded data. For example:

@array[1!,2!,3!,4!]

The portable, human-readable string format encodes values with a single character type designator as follows:

• % – Bool
• ! – Int
• $ – String
• ^ – Float
• & – Double
• * – Embedded NSData or Data valueAdditionally, embedded arrays will be in the @array[...] format and embedded dictionaries in the @obj:type<...> format.

ADInstanceDictionary

Defines a passable dictionary of ADRecord values when encoding or decoding an Action Data class instance. ADInstanceDictionary also introduces support for the new Swift Portable Object Notation (SPON) data format that allows complex data models to be encoded in a portable text string that encodes not only property keys and data, but also includes type information about the encoded data. For example:

@obj:Address<state$=`TX` city$=`Seabrook` addr1$=`25 Nasa Rd 1` zip$=`77586` addr2$=`Apt #123`>

The portable, human-readable string format encodes values with a single character type designator as follows:

• % – Bool
• ! – Int
• $ – String
• ^ – Float
• & – Double
• * – Embedded NSData or Data valueAdditionally, embedded arrays will be in the @array[...] format and embedded dictionaries in the @obj:type<...> format.

ADEncodingStorage

Holds information about a given Action Data class while it is being encoded.

ADDecodingStorage

Holds information about a given Action Data object while it is being decoded.

SQLite

Contains the custom encoder and decoder to preprocess and post process data object models that will be sent to or returned from a ADSQLiteProvider and store or returned from a backing SQLite database.

A ADSQLEncoder can return a ADRecord, ADInstanceArray or ADInstanceDictionary representing a given data object model or collection of object models.

A ADSQLDecoder takes a ADRecord, ADInstanceArray or ADInstanceDictionary returned from a data source and converts it into a data object model or a collection of object models representing the given information.

SPON

Contains the custom encoder and decoder to preprocess and post process data object models that will be sent to or returned from a ADSPONProvider and store or returned from a backing Swift Portable Object Notation (SPON) database.

A ADSPONEncoder can return a ADRecord, ADInstanceArray or ADInstanceDictionary representing a given data object model or collection of object models.

A ADSPONDecoder takes a ADRecord, ADInstanceArray or ADInstanceDictionary returned from a data source and converts it into a data object model or a collection of object models representing the given information.