Composition in Realm

Issue #13 There is time we have models that have some kind of inheritance, like Dog, Cat, Mouse can be Animal. We can use composition to imitate inheritance, we just need to make sure it has unique primary key Cat and Dog These are pretty much basic Realm objects class Dog: Object { dynamic var id: Int = 0 required convenience init(json: [String: Any]) { self.init() id <- json.integer(key: "id") } } class Cat: Object { dynamic var id: Int = 0 required convenience init(json: [String: Any]) { self....

May 2, 2017 · 1 min · Khoa Pham

Primary key in Realm

Issue #4 Realm is great. But without primary key, it will duplicate the record, like https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues/2730, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32322460/should-i-define-the-primary-key-for-each-entity-in-realm, … So to force ourselves into the good habit of declaring primary key, we can leverage Swift protocol Create primary constrain protocol like this protocol PrimaryKeyAware { var id: Int { get } static func primaryKey() -> String? } and conform it in out Realm object class Profile: Object, PrimaryKeyAware { dynamic var firstName: String = "" dynamic var lastName: String = "" dynamic var id: Int = 0 override static func primaryKey() -> String?...

April 26, 2017 · 1 min · Khoa Pham