swift-protobuf VS SwiftyJSON

https://docs.rs/prost/latest/prost/ crate lets you encode / decode protobuf messages. You can write a message which represents your struct or whatever data type is, set the fields, and then encode it into bytes. Decoding in swift can be done with something like this https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf ig.

I’ve used Protobuf in Swift and it was pretty straightforward. Apple already provides a tool chain [1] so using a third party is a hard sell.

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf

> Why should they? That isn't their target audience.

Because they need it?

Apple discontinued macOS server, i bet they use Linux in some of their servers

All their networking related libs are available and tested for Linux [1, 2]

Let's not forget that they package Swift for Linux, and now also for Windows [3]

Swift is crossplatform language (you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework

[1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio

[2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo...

[3] - https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-6-2-for-linux-...

Swift Protobuf - Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift. Language: Swift.

I need to explore using Protobuf -> Swift (https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf) then using the Kotlin Native to Swift interop: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-objc-interop.html

Thanks. I downloaded and installed https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf. Is that the tool you are talking about? This creates a blank .proto file and generates .pb.swift files but I am stuck on creating the Starlink .proto file. Do you have a StarLink .proto file? I was successful in creating a protoset file but not a .proto file. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t think you are going to be able to use JSONDecoder to do what you are asking. I see the problem is that you need to create a struct that has all the property names (pokemon names) in it in order to use JSONDecoder (that’s a pain). You need to resort to “parsing” the JSON and constructing your own data model to satisfy your requirements. Something like this might help. https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON

Up until now, I've been using SwiftyJSON, although it appears to be unmaintained. Is there an equivalent alternative which functions similarly? Thanks in advance

SwiftyJSON - The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift. Language: Swift.

I second /u/daisnb that if possible, make sure the data is a consistent format and types, but if you’re unable to do that, I think SwiftyJSON can help, as it loosens the strict type requirement of Swift when handling JSON data