Applications use swift-cloudant to store, index and query remote JSON data on Cloudant or CouchDB.
Swift-Cloudant is an Apache CouchDB™ client written in Swift. It is built by Cloudant and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.
This is an early-release version of the library, with support for the following operations:
- Getting documents by doc ID.
- Updating and deleting documents.
- Creating and deleting databases.
- Changes Feed operations
- Creating, updating and deleting of attachments.
- Querying views.
- Creating, deleting and querying indexes.
We will be rounding out the feature set in upcoming releases.
Currently it does not support being called from Objective-C.
SwiftCloudant is supported, however since it is an early release it is
on a "best effort" basis.
Currently Swift Cloudant supports:
Swift versions
- Minimum Swift language version 4.2
- Minimum Swift tools version 5.0
Platforms
- macOS
- Linux
Swift Cloudant is unsupported on:
- iOS (should work, but hasn't been tested)
- tvOS
- watchOS
SwiftCloudant is available using the Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods.
To use with CocoaPods add the following line to your Podfile:
pod 'SwiftCloudant', :git => 'https://github.com/cloudant/swift-cloudant.git'To use with the swift package manager add the following line to your dependencies in your Package.swift:
.Package(url: "https://github.com/cloudant/swift-cloudant.git")import SwiftCloudant
// Create a CouchDBClient
let cloudantURL = URL(string:"https://username.cloudant.com")!
let client = CouchDBClient(url:cloudantURL, username:"username", password:"password")
let dbName = "database"
// Create a document
let create = PutDocumentOperation(id: "doc1", body: ["hello":"world"], databaseName: dbName) {(response, httpInfo, error) in
if let error = error as? SwiftCloudant.Operation.Error {
switch error {
case .http(let httpError):
print("http error status code: \(httpError.statusCode) response: \(httpError.response)")
default:
print("Encountered an error while creating a document. Error:\(error)")
}
} else {
print("Created document \(response?["id"]) with revision id \(response?["rev"])")
}
}
client.add(operation:create)
// create an attachment
let attachment = "This is my awesome essay attachment for my document"
let putAttachment = PutAttachmentOperation(name: "myAwesomeAttachment",
contentType: "text/plain",
data: attachment.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8, allowLossyConversion: false)!,
documentID: "doc1",
revision: "1-revisionidhere",
databaseName: dbName) { (response, info, error) in
if let error = error {
print("Encountered an error while creating an attachment. Error:\(error)")
} else {
print("Created attachment \(response?["id"]) with revision id \(response?["rev"])")
}
}
client.add(operation: putAttachment)
// Read a document
let read = GetDocumentOperation(id: "doc1", databaseName: dbName) { (response, httpInfo, error) in
if let error = error {
print("Encountered an error while reading a document. Error:\(error)")
} else {
print("Read document: \(response)")
}
}
client.add(operation:read)
// Delete a document
let delete = DeleteDocumentOperation(id: "doc1",
revision: "1-revisionidhere",
databaseName: dbName) { (response, httpInfo, error) in
if let error = error {
print("Encountered an error while deleting a document. Error: \(error)")
} else {
print("Document deleted")
}
}
client.add(operation:delete)Currently they are no third party dependencies.
See CONTRIBUTORS.
See CONTRIBUTING.
See LICENSE