Swift backend / server framework (Pure Swift, Supports Linux)

Alsey Coleman Miller

Last update: Oct 6, 2022

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Server side projects NetworkObjects

Overview

NetworkObjects

NetworkObjects is a #PureSwift backend. This framework compiles for OS X, iOS and Linux and serves as the foundation for building powerful Swift servers. Powered by SwiftFoundation and CoreModel, the framework comes with server and client classes which abstract away advanced networking code.

Example

NetworkObjectsDemo - Demo App / Server for NetworkObjects
NetworkObjectsUI - iOS framework that provides view and controller classes for easily integrating NetworkObjects into your iOS app.

Support and Documentation

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Comments

Replace NOResourceProtocol with delegate protocol

Change the design. Instead of the NSManagedObjects being subclasses and asked about access control, etc., have NOServer have a delegate that is queried those methods. This new design would drastically change how NOServer is implemented, although the functionally would remain the same. The main reason for this is to concatenate behavior (like having all the resources be public), so that entities can point to different objects and behave differently in different NOServers. Currently, all behavior is global (especially the class methods of NOResourceProtocol).
bug enhancement

opened by colemancda 3
Add Web Socket support

GCDAsyncSocket supports Web Sockets and Objective-C libraries exist for client side WS. This could be implemented as a separate NOServer, with possibly the current one being a subclass of a abstract superclass with HTTP and WS implementations, as well as NOAPI being an abstract class with two implementations. Or the the current class could somehow support both interfaces.
enhancement

opened by colemancda 3
Remote fetch requests

Implementing this would really invalidate fix #12. The idea is to introduce a search API based on NSFetchRequest that would allow fetch requests to be executed over the network. The response would return the resource IDs of objects returned by the fetch request that the session has permission to view.
enhancement

opened by colemancda 2
Add three letter prefix

"In order to keep class names unique, the convention is to use prefixes on all classes. You’ll have noticed that Cocoa and Cocoa Touch class names typically start either with NS or UI. Two-letter prefixes like these are reserved by Apple for use in framework classes."

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Conventions/Conventions.html

opened by 3lvis 2
CoreData -validateForDelete not working properly

Deleting a managed object in Server will result in a validation error if the managed object contains a relationship with a non-nil value.

This project's test cases document the problem: https://github.com/evandelaney/StackOverflow-20722804

Here's the SO discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20722804/coredata-how-to-use-validatefordelete-to-determine-if-a-managed-object-should
bug invalid

opened by colemancda 1
move -fetchEntity: methods to internal NSMangedObjectContext extension

If possible, move -fetchEntity: methods to internal NSMangedObjectContext extension so the Store class can take advantage of it. Would help solve #62.
enhancement

opened by colemancda 1
Add recursive fetch support

For both WS and HTTP requests, the fetch requests should include a recursive flag (as a header in HTTP) so that the server will return the JSON representation of relationships instead of their resource ID.
bug enhancement wontfix

opened by colemancda 1
Correctly implement includesSubentities for search

Currently, the client will create and cache the entity specified by the fetch request. The server currently does not provide enough information for the client to cache sub entities. the JSON response could be something like this:

{ "entity1" : [1,2,3], "entity2" : [4,5,6 ] }

it is important that the keys in these response dictionaries correspond to the resource path of the entities and not the name of the entities themselves. This allows for more cross platform compatibility and also abstraction from the internal details.
bug

opened by colemancda 1
NOServer subclass that is more concurrent.

Or maybe a MySQL NSIncrementalStore subclass that NOStore uses and NOServer creates a context for each request and saves it. This would work great with #47 .
enhancement

opened by colemancda 1
Optimize NOStore and save on worker thread

NOStore should adopt even more concurrency with multiple contexts (maybe one per session, connection, request, etc...?) and perform saves on worker queue.
bug enhancement wontfix

opened by colemancda 1
NOIncrementalStore support

NOIncrementalStore will block its thread while fetching data. NOAPI and NOAPICached store will be integrated into NOIncrementalStore (as properties, categories, in the implementation itself. SNCStore will have a context that serves as cache and a child store that uses NSIncremental store.
bug

opened by colemancda 1

Releases(3.0.0)

3.0.0(Sep 18, 2015)
First #PureSwift release!

SwiftFoundation and CoreModel based

#6 Added WebSocket support

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2.0.0(Jun 29, 2015)
Migrated to Swift 2.0

Cleaned up Store and separated validation and caching methods

Separated enumerations and other code into separate source files

Removed -Server prefix from enum types

Removed ExSwift dependency

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1.1.5(Jun 19, 2015)
Restored Carthage support

Restored separate OS X / iOS targets

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1.1.4(Jun 16, 2015)
Restored Universal OS X / iOS framework target

Removed Carthage support

Switched back to Git submodule dependencies

Updated dependencies and silenced warnings

defe002 Removed temporary fix for NSSortDescriptor key on OS X

6018e35 Added func fetchResource() to Store

888b543 Fixed incorrect bundle identifiers

177f59f Added defaultURLSession to Store

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1.1.3(Jun 11, 2015)

Added Carthage support
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1.1.2(Jun 7, 2015)

Fixed Unit Test bugs
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1.1.1(Apr 18, 2015)

Updated for Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2
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1.1(Feb 11, 2015)
#104 Applied workaround for CoreData's -validateForDelete not working properly

#102 Added Gitter Chat badge

#101 Framework version is set from commit count on develop

#83 Converting Transformed value from bad JSON no longer raises an exception

#82 Server saves managed object context at the end of each successful request

#93 Fully integrated Travis CI

#63 Added Test Cases

de98e90975c1c009c140bb1847be4f58201a7971 Fixed Server crashing when delegate is nil

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1.0.3(Feb 7, 2015)
#99 Fixed Unit Tests crashing at runtime

#95 Added ExSwift as a dependency

#93 Tried to add Travis CI integration

#89 Search now handles complex predicates

#87 Added JSON validation to Store

#86 Moved Server -fetchEntity: method into internal function

ef5a50eebd514a3dcd79ac3c4abc3f79c8136c73 Added CoreDataAttributeJSONCompatibilityOptions

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1.0.2(Jan 12, 2015)
#88 Fixed nil values not being applied to managed objects in Store

#84 Ordered to-many relationships are now supported

#81 Server now informs delegate of failed requests

#80, #79 Sub entities are now properly supported

#71 Resource ID attribute is added at runtime (in Server and Store)

f60d3c1a46c9264681ab61df12805306f18206a4 Transformable values no longer crash

246641569df8e1472ae0a2b96d450b05a2b0a509 Fixed Server's Search handler not supporting predicate options correctly

5ba1fabb3397abe2ca054ce72e982050d8d095f0 Store no longer crashes when merging changes from private managed object context

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1.0.1(Dec 7, 2014)
#78 Refactored Store's URL Request code for subclassing

#77 All properties are optional at runtime in Store

#75 Entity paths are now directly mapped to their names

#71 Resource ID attribute is added at runtime (in Store)

086bba7 Added temporary fix for NSSortDescriptor inconsistency in OS X

82508d9 Added Core Data validation for insert, update, and delete requests in Server

914d607 Added -server:didInsertManagedObject:context: to ServerDelegate

Fixed bugs related to optionals in Swift

Fixed Server request handlers returning incorrect values and crashing

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1.0(Oct 4, 2014)
First stable release of NetworkObjects

Ported to Swift

Improved delegate and datasource methods

Dependencies are embedded frameworks

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0.9.6(Jun 15, 2014)
Framework rewritten from scratch (with some code being migrated)

Framework only defines two classes, NOServer and NOStore

New NOStore class replaces NOAPI and NOAPICachedStore

Old NOStore functionality is now implemented by NOServer's delegates

Old example server and client removed

NOResourceProtocol removed

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0.9.5.1(Apr 23, 2014)
#18 NOServer has a delegate for internal error reporting

#34 NOServer no longer broadcasts abstract entities

#46 Renamed NOServer constants and added prefixes

Optimized NOServer

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0.9.5-beta(Apr 20, 2014)
#43 Replaced custom value validation methods with KVC ones

#40 added optional, client-side date attribute for date when cached

NOStore and NOServer have been optimized

Disabled deletion of other users' posts in example client

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0.9.4.3-beta(Apr 19, 2014)
#19 Added dependencies as submodules

#43 Replaced custom value validation methods with KVC ones

Fixed UI in example client when creating new post

Fixed file references

Removed old code

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0.9.4.2-beta(Apr 19, 2014)
Fixed Issue when displaying tableview cells in example client

Added a main thread context to client example

NOAPI now deletes a resource in cache when the server returns a not found error

NOAPI now saves its context after every request

Fixed Model.xcdatamodel reference in example client and server

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0.9.4.1-beta(Apr 1, 2014)
Fixed search API bug

Updated read me

NOAPI now uses a options dictionary for initialization

Removed NOIncrementalStore (can still be found in branches)

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0.9.4-beta(Mar 30, 2014)
Fixed buggy animation when table view cells in example client were reloaded

Client and server example fully functional

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0.9.3-alpha(Mar 30, 2014)
Added more documentation

Added search capabilities to the server and client.

Added NOIncrementalStore (experimental)

Fixed bug that caused missing references when copying project

Minor bug fixes and optimizations

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0.9.2.4-alpha(Mar 9, 2014)
Changed NOAPICachedStore internally so that, when fetching a resource, it would only update values that have changed. This is so that NSFetchedResultsController will not update constantly.

Server example now uses NSArrayController and Cocoa Bindings for its SNSBrowserVC

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0.9.2.3-alpha(Mar 8, 2014)
Finally got NSFetchedResultsController to work properly in PostsVC

Client example is now fully functional

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0.9.2.2-alpha(Mar 8, 2014)
Removed old examples and completed new examples (could use improvements though)

NSURLSession is an argument in NOAPI's methods for communicating with server

Fixed example client bugs

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0.9.2.1-alpha(Feb 23, 2014)
Updated README

Added login screen to new client example (the old client example is still included and functional)

Implemented authentication in new client example

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0.92(Feb 17, 2014)
The server example was rewritten from scratch for more clarity

Created template for rewrite of client example

Fixed NOStore saving bug

Added more documentation

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0.911(Dec 30, 2013)

A quick fix release which adds a minor change to Resource functions and adds a lot of documentation.
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0.91(Dec 30, 2013)

The server code had some bugs relating to JSON representation of Resources which were fixed and some code was added to the example's client iOS app. HTTPS support was added too.
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Alsey Coleman Miller

IoT Swift Developer working on cross-platform projects

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