👨‍✈️ Pilot

Pilot is a very simple HTTP network layer written in Swift, supports both modern concurency in Swift with async/await as well as Combine framework. It's inspired by Moya and Alamofire.

Basic Usage

• Start by creating your routes to the API:

  enum FlightRoute {
  
      case getFlights
      case getFlight(String)
      case addFlight
      case updateFlight
      case deleteFlight(String)
  }

• Extend your routes conforming to the Route protocol:

  extension FlightRoute: Route {
  
      var baseURL: URL { URL(string: "/api/flights")! }
  
      var path: String {
          switch self {
          case let .getFlight(id),
              let .deleteFlight(id): return "/\(id)"
          default: return ""
          }
      }
  
      var httpMethod: HttpMethod {
          switch self {
          case .getFlights, .getFlight: return .get
          case .addFlight: return .post
          case .updateFlight: return .put
          case .deleteFlight: return .delete
          }
      }
  
      var httpHeaders: HttpHeaders { .empty }
  
      var parameters: Parameters? {
          switch self {
          case .getFlights: return ["size": "20"]
          default: return nil
          }
      }
  
      var parameterEncoding: ParameterEncoding? {
          switch self {
          case .getFlights: return .url
          case .addFlight, .updateFlight: return .json
          default: return nil
      }
  }
  

• Let the Pilot fly your routes:

  let network = Pilot<FlightRoute>()

  // Inside an asynchronous function
  do {
      let response = try await network.request(.getFlights)
      // do something useful
  } catch {
      // handle error
  }

  With Combine

  let network = Pilot<FlightRoute>()
  network.request(.getFlights)
      .sink(receiveCompletion: { completion in
          // ...
      }, receiveValue: { response in
          // ...
      })
      .store(in: &cancellables)

Decoding JSON response

To get the Decodable model out of the response indicates the type of model and optionally provides your custom JSONDecoder (Pilot uses the default one, which means with all default decoding strategies):

do {
    let flights = try await network.request(.getFlights, target: [Flight].self, decoder: jsonDecoder)
    // do something useful
} catch {
    // handle error
}

With Combine

network.request(.getFlights, target: [Flight].self, decoder: jsonDecoder)
    .sink(receiveCompletion: { completion in
        // ...
    }, receiveValue: { flights in
        // ...
    })
    .store(in: &cancellables)

Decoding JSON error

If the API you're consuming supports JSON error, it can be returned as the associated value of PilotError.designated:

do {
    let flights = try await network.request(.getFlights, target: [Flight].self, failure: FlightApiError.self decoder: jsonDecoder)
    // do something useful
} catch {
    if case let .designated(apiError) = error as? PilotError {
        // handle your designated `FlightApiError`
    }
}

Just make sure your FlightApiError conform to DesignatedError (which is a typealias of Error & Decodable)

With Combine

network.request(.getFlights, target: [Flight].self, failure: FlightApiError.self, decoder: jsonDecoder)
    .sink(receiveCompletion: { completion in
        if case .failure(error) = completion, case let .designated(apiError) = error {
            // The `apiError` is type of `FlightApiError`
        }
    }, receiveValue: { flights in
        // ...
    })
    .store(in: &cancellables)

Installation

You can add Pilot to an Xcode project as a package dependency.

https://github.com/Thieurom/Pilot

If you want to use Pilot in a SwiftPM project, it's as simple as adding it to a dependencies clause in your Package.swift:

dependencies: [
  .package(url: "https://github.com/Thieurom/Pilot", from: "0.5.0")
]