SuperCodable

From Foundation

struct AStudent: Codable {
    init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
        let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        self.aID = try container.decode(String.self, forKey: .aID)
        self.aName = try container.decode(String.self, forKey: .aName)
        let gradeDecoded = try container.decode(Double.self, forKey: .aGrade)
        self.AGrede = Int(gradeDecoded)
    }

    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
        case aName = "name"
        case aGrade = "grade"
        case aID = "id"
    }

    var aID: String
    var aName: String
    var AGrede: Int

    func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws {
        var container = encoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        try container.encode(aID, forKey: .aID)
        try container.encode(Double(AGrede), forKey: .aGrade)
        try container.encode(aName, forKey: .aName)
    }
}

To SuperCodable

struct Student: SuperCodable {
    @Keyed
    var id: String
    
    @Keyed("name") 
    var aName: String
    
    @KeyedTransform("grade", doubleTransform)
    var AGrade: Int
}

let doubleTransform = SCTransformOf<Int, Double> {
    (double) -> Int in
    Int(double)
} toEncoder: { (int) -> Double in
    Double(int)
}

Even random backend type

struct AnyValueJSON: SuperCodable {
    @KeyedTransform(IDTransform)
    var id:Int
}

 let data =
    #"""
    [
        {
            "id": "0",
        },
        {
            "id": 1,
        },
        {
            "id": "abc",
        },
        {
            "id": true,
        },
    ]
    """#.data(using: .utf8)!
let sut = try! JSONDecoder().decode([AnyValueJSON].self, from: data)
XCTAssertEqual(sut.count, 4)
XCTAssertEqual(sut.map(\.id), [0, 1, 0, 1])

Can be found in Tests/SuperCodableTests/AnyValueDecode.swift

Feature

• Working with Nested Foundation.Codable property

Known side effect

• SuperDecoable must construct from nothing init()
• @Keyed var id:Int will do O(n) calculation on underlaying wrapper _VARIABLE_NAME into key VARIABLE_NAME. Be ware of variable name takes too long

Known Disability

• Every property in a SuperCodable should a DecodableKey / EncodableKey, otherwise the property(which should be Codable) will simply ignored during the Codable process.

Why:

Basically Mirror can't mutating the object value during the init(from decoder:) throws, since we create the object from self.init()

Other notes

• Inspired by: https://medium.com/trueid-developers/combined-propertywrapper-with-codable-swift-368dc4aa2703

• Try to merge @KeyedTransform into @Keyed, but it required @Keyed var id: String to be @Keyed() var id: String, with extra () 🧐

• Swift should auto generate STRUCT.init(....) for you, but if you using @Keyed var id: String without default value, it will generate init(id: Keyed<String>), by giving default value @Keyed var id: String = "" should solve this problem.

Know Issues

• @Keyed var id:String? will cause fatalError on force unwrapping Keyed.value?, you can using @OptionalKeyed to make it works.
• OptionalKeyed may / may not a good name, I am thinking of make the easy to change, maybe KeyedOptional is EASY change? 🤔