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Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

By : Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift

By: Florent Vilmart, Giordano Scalzo, Sergio De Simone

Overview of this book

Swift keeps gaining traction not only amongst Apple developers but also as a server-side language. This book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. You’ll begin with a quick refresher on Swift, the compiler, the standard library, and the foundation, followed by the Cocoa design patterns – the ones at the core of many cocoa libraries – to follow up with the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. You'll get acquainted with application architecture, as well as the most popular architectural design patterns, such as MVC and MVVM, and learn to use them in the context of Swift. In addition, you’ll walk through dependency injection and functional reactive programming. Special emphasis will be given to techniques to handle concurrency, including callbacks, futures and promises, and reactive programming. These techniques will help you adopt a test-driven approach to your workflow in order to use Swift Package Manager and integrate the framework into the original code base, along with Unit and UI testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build applications that are scalable, faster, and easier to maintain.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Dependency Injection by example


After spending a few pages defining and explaining Dependency Injection and its principles, now let's see how to implement it in Swift.

Four ways to use Dependency Injection (with examples)

Dependency Injection is used ubiquitously in Cocoa too, and in the following examples, we'll see code snippets both from Cocoa and typical client-side code. Let's take a look at the following four sections to learn how to use Dependency Injection.

Constructor Injection

The first way to do DI is to pass the collaborators in the constructor, where they are then saved in private properties. Let's have as an example on e-commerce app, whose Basket is handled both locally and remotely. The BasketClient class orchestrates the logic, saves locally in BasketStore, and synchronizes remotely with BasketService:

protocol BasketStore {
    func loadAllProduct() -> [Product]
    func add(product: Product)
    func delete(product: Product)
}

protocol BasketService {
    func fetchAllProduct...