Entwine Utilities

Part of Entwine – A collection of accessories for Apple’s Combine Framework.

Contents

About

Entwine Utilities are a collection of operators, tools and extensions to make working with Combine even more productive.

  • The ReplaySubject makes it simple for subscribers to receive the most recent values immediately upon subscription.
  • The withLatest(from:) operator enables state to be taken alongside UI events.
  • Publishers.Factory makes creating publishers fast and simple – they can even be created inline!

be sure to checkout the documentation for the full list of operators and utilities.

Getting started

Ensure to import Entwine in each file you wish to the utilities with.

The operators can then be used as part of your usual publisher chain declaration:


import Combine
import Entwine

class MyClass {

    let myEntwineCancellationBag = CancellationBag()

    ...

    func printLatestColorOnClicks() {
        let clicks: AnyPublisher<Void, Never> = SomeClickPublisher.shared
        let color: AnyPublisher<UIColor, Never> = SomeColorSource.shared

        clicks.withLatest(from: color)
            .sink {
                print("clicked when the latest color was: \($0)")
            }
            .cancelled(by: myEntwineCancellationBag)
    }
}

Each operator, subject and utility is documented with examples. check out the full documentation.

Installation

As part of another Swift Package:

  1. Include it in your Package.swift file as both a dependency and a dependency of your target.
import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    ...
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "http://github.com/tcldr/Entwine.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "0.0.0")),
    ],
    ...
    targets: [
        .target(name: "MyTarget", dependencies: ["Entwine"]),
    ]
)
  1. Then run swift package update from the root directory of your SPM project. If you’re using Xcode 11 to edit your SPM project this should happen automatically.

As part of an Xcode 11 or greater project:

  1. Select the File -> Swift Packages -> Add package dependency... menu item.
  2. Enter the repository url https://github.com/tcldr/Entwine and tap next.
  3. Select ‘version, 'up to next major’, enter 0.0.0, hit next.
  4. Select the Entwine library and specify the target you wish to use it with.

n.b. Entwine is pre-release software and as such the API may change prior to reaching 1.0. For finer-grained control please use .upToNextMinor(from:) in your SPM dependency declaration

Documentation

Full documentation for Entwine can be found at http://tcldr.github.io/Entwine/EntwineDocs.

Copyright 2019 © Tristan Celder

Entwine is made available under the MIT License