Elegant library to manage the interactions between view and model in Swift
An assistant to manage the interactions between view and model
ModelAssistant is a mediator between the view and model. This framework is tailored to work in conjunction with views that present collections of objects. These views typically expect their data source to present results as a list of sections made up of rows. ModelAssistant can efficiently analyze model objects and categorize them in sections. In addition it updates adopted view to its delegate, based on model objects changes.
Now using modelAssitant is really easy with just two lines of codes, and delegates will be implement automatically to your collection view.
See Usage for new way of implementing modelAssistant.
Upgraded to Swift 5
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects. You can install it with the following command:
$ gem install cocoapods
To integrate ModelAssistant into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile
:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '10.0'
use_frameworks!
target '<Your Target Name>' do
pod 'ModelAssistant'
end
If you are not upgraded to Swift 4.2, use the last non-swift 4.2 compatible release:
If you are using swift 4, replace pod 'ModelAssistant'
with this:
pod 'ModelAssistant', '1.0.1' #Swift 4
If you are using swift 3, replace pod 'ModelAssistant'
with this:
pod 'ModelAssistant', '1.0.0' #Swift 3
Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager that builds your dependencies and provides you with binary frameworks.
You can install Carthage with Homebrew using the following command:
$ brew update
$ brew install carthage
To integrate ModelAssistant into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile
:
github "ssamadgh/ModelAssistant"
Run carthage update --platform iOS
to build the framework and drag the built ModelAssistant.framework
into your Xcode project.
If you prefer not to use any of the aforementioned dependency managers, you can integrate ModelAssistant into your project manually.
Open up Terminal, cd
into your top-level project directory, and run the following command "if" your project is not initialized as a git repository:
$ git init
Add ModelAssistant as a git submodule by running the following command:
$ git submodule add https://github.com/ssamadgh/ModelAssistant.git
Open the new ModelAssistant
folder, and drag the ModelAssistant.xcodeproj
into the Project Navigator of your application's Xcode project.
It should appear nested underneath your application's blue project icon. Whether it is above or below all the other Xcode groups does not matter.
Select the ModelAssistant.xcodeproj
in the Project Navigator and verify the deployment target matches that of your application target.
Next, select your application project in the Project Navigator (blue project icon) to navigate to the target configuration window and select the application target under the "Targets" heading in the sidebar.
In the tab bar at the top of that window, open the "General" panel.
Click on the +
button under the "Embedded Binaries" section.
You will see two different ModelAssistant.xcodeproj
folders each with a ModelAssistant.framework
nested inside a Products
folder.
It does not matter which
Products
folder you choose from.
Select the ModelAssistant.framework
.
And that's it!
The
ModelAssistant.framework
is automagically added as a target dependency, linked framework and embedded framework in a copy files build phase which is all you need to build on the simulator and a device.
ModelAssistant is fully compatible with all kind of design patterns. It doesn't violate them, instead it finds its place and sit there! As a guide the position of ModelAssistant in some of famous design patterns is as follows:
Design Pattern | ModelAssistant Position |
---|---|
MVC | Controller |
MVP | Presenter |
MVVM | ViewModel |
VIPER | Presenter |
ModelAssistant is owned and maintained by the Seyed Samad Gholamzadeh. You can follow me on Twitter at @ssamadgh for project updates and releases.
ModelAssistant is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.