Continuing on with that WebExtension, but with a detour in custom Encoders
https://www.whynotestflight.com/excuses/how-do-custom-encoders-work/
Found the best thing for it was copying and making crazy graphs of some existing encoders in the Apple/GitHub repos. Here's 4
I found the comparison between the two different JSONEncoder implementations particularly interesting.
#Codable, #Encoder, #SwiftLang, #JSON, #JSONEncoder, #URIEncoder
And now a simple but pretty thorough implementation of an Encoder with tests. (Although still more of a toy / somewhere to start than something anyone should use.)
- https://www.whynotestflight.com/excuses/and-what-can-i-make-a-custom-encoder-do/
- https://github.com/carlynorama/CoderExplorer/
It goes on forever. As I say in the summary 1578 lines down: "Encoders. Not so fiddly if one can be ruthless in vetting the input. Interminable to write if trying to be general purpose. "
And this one isn't even configurable!
Getting ready for the Decoder part, reviewing a few ways break up a String
https://www.whynotestflight.com/excuses/wait-how-do-i-scan-text-again/
The RegExBuilder regex is surprisingly speedy in context!
Have to kick this one out the door to keep moving! Date Parsing. That's a career.
I'm just looking at the new as of 2021 date formatting options in Swift and how to use them in a function for a Decoder.
https://www.whynotestflight.com/excuses/date-parsing.-nose-wrinkle./
#SwiftLang, #DateParsing, #DateFormatStyle, #ParseStrategy, #VerbatimFormatStyle, #DateFormatString
This one's a short one for me because with the simple string and date parsing done a Decoder can come together pretty quickly...
when you also have low standards!
This isn't the pair to the SimpleCoder Encoder. This is a simple stand alone Decoder because I couldn't find a good _public_ example of one that wasn't elaborate. (Makes sense... because why bust out a Decoder if you don't need general purpose and elaborate? (Really, don't))
https://www.whynotestflight.com/excuses/what-would-be-a-very-simple-working-decoder/
carlyn