08: Archival Serialization & Swift Encoders

24 April 2017

SE-0166: Swift Archival & Serialization

• NSCoding:
  • https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nscoding
  • http://nshipster.com/nscoding/
• Swift Archival & Serialization: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0166-swift-archival-serialization.md
• ABI Stability Dashboard: https://swift.org/abi-stability/

SE-0167: Swift Encoders

• https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0167-swift-encoders.md
• Semantics of Codable Types in Archives
• NSValueTransformer
  • https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsvaluetransformer
  • http://nshipster.com/nsvaluetransformer/
• “In the future, we may add API to allow Swift types to provide an Objective-C class to decode as, effectively allowing for user bridging across archival.”
• Similar to Russ Bishop’s proposal
  • Allow Swift types to provide custom Objective-C representations
  • https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0058-objectivecbridgeable.md

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