robrix / box

Swift µframework of the ubiquitous Box<T> & MutableBox<T> reference types, for recursive value types & misc. other purposes.

Box

This is a Swift microframework which implements Box<T> & MutableBox<T>, with implementations of ==/!= where T: Equatable.

Box is typically used to work around limitations of value types:

• recursive structs/enums
• type-parameterized enums where more than one case has a value

Use

Wrapping & unwrapping a Box:

// Wrap:
let box = Box(1)

// Unwrap:
let value = box.value

Changing the value of a MutableBox:

// Mutation:
let mutableBox = MutableBox(1)
mutableBox.value = 2

Building a recursive value type:

struct BinaryTree {
	let value: Int
	let left: Box<BinaryTree>?
	let right: Box<BinaryTree>?
}

Building a parameterized enum:

enum Result<T> {
	case Success(Box<T>)
	case Failure(NSError)
}

See the sources for more details.

Integration

1. Add this repo as a submodule in e.g. External/Box:

    git submodule add https://github.com/robrix/Box.git External/Box
   

2. Drag Box.xcodeproj into your .xcworkspace/.xcodeproj.

3. Add Box.framework to your target’s Link Binary With Libraries build phase.

4. You may also want to add a Copy Files phase which copies Box.framework (and any other framework dependencies you need) into your bundle’s Frameworks directory. If your target is a framework, you may instead want the client app to include Box.framework.

box's Issues

Swift 2 protocols renamed

When building with base SDK set to iOS 9, build errors arise since Printable has been renamed to CustomStringConvertible and toString to String.

Deadlocks when instantiating recursive struct (such as BinaryTree<T>).

Instantiating a "boxed" recursive struct (like the one described in README) results in a deadlock.

import Cocoa
import Box

struct BinaryTree<T> {
    let value: T
    let left: Box<BinaryTree<T>>?
    let right: Box<BinaryTree<T>>?
}

typealias Tree = BinaryTree<Int>
typealias TreeBox = Box<Tree>

let left = Tree(value: 1, left: nil, right: nil)
let right = Tree(value: 3, left: nil, right: nil)
let root = Tree(value: 2, left: TreeBox(left), right: TreeBox(right))

The process gets trapped right at/before let left = …

Am I being silly here or is this a Swift bug as I reckon?

Update cocoapod

I'm getting this error 'Printable' has been renamed to 'CustomStringConvertible' can you update cocoapod?

Tag new version?

Since Box now has an iOS scheme in addition to the OS X scheme (and the deployment target for OS X has been lowered), should we have a new tagged version?

Compilation error using carthage

Hi... just tried to add Box to a brand new project using Carthage (my cartfile contains github "robrix/Box" ~> 1.2.0) and get the following error when I run carthage update:

clang: error: invalid architecture 'aarch64' for deployment target '-mios-simulator-version-min=8.0'

If I manually open and build Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box.xcodeproj in Xcode (6.3, if it matters) it compiles OK. The one difference that I can see between the two compilation commands are that carthage is using Release-iphoneos, whereas Xcode uses Debug-iphonesimulator.

The full transcript of the carthage build is https://gist.github.com/edwardaux/8a2319844ba00582c0b7

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Why does this framework use for parameterized enum?

About

enum Result<T> {
    case Success(Box<T>)
    case Failure(NSError)
}

I don't understand why we use it like that. Why do we just use case Success(T)? Just a question to gain more knowledge.

map()

func map<T, U>(Box<T>, T -> U) -> Box<U>

Support iOS7

Some of us poor souls are forced to support iOS7. Bumping the deployment target down to 7.0 would bring a little joy into our otherwise miserable existence.

Repeated build errors

Running into errors with building box (2.0 and 1.2.2) on my system (OS X 10.10.5) after installing Xcode 7.0. (but manually reverting to 6.4)

$ xcode-select -p
/Applications/Xcode 6.4.app/Contents/Developer

$ xcodebuild -version
Xcode 6.4
Build version 6E35b

$ cat Cartfile 
github "robrix/Box" "2.0"

$ carthage bootstrap

carthage bootstrap
*** Checking out Box at "2.0"
*** xcodebuild output can be found in /var/folders/jv/5fg0gqbd6gj861f82prqvw240000gp/T/carthage-xcodebuild.3SM7TP.log
*** Building scheme "Box-Mac" in Box.xcodeproj
** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
    CompileSwift normal x86_64 <project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/Box.swift
    CompileSwift normal x86_64 <project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/MutableBox.swift
    CompileSwiftSources normal x86_64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler
(3 failures)
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/Box.swift:6:37: error: use of undeclared type 'CustomStringConvertible'
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/Box.swift:31:17: error: missing argument label 'stringInterpolationSegment:' in call
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/MutableBox.swift:8:51: error: use of undeclared type 'CustomStringConvertible'
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/MutableBox.swift:25:17: error: missing argument label 'stringInterpolationSegment:' in call
A shell task failed with exit code 65:
** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
    CompileSwift normal x86_64 <project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/Box.swift
    CompileSwift normal x86_64 <project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/MutableBox.swift
    CompileSwiftSources normal x86_64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler
(3 failures)

$ cat /var/folders/jv/5fg0gqbd6gj861f82prqvw240000gp/T/carthage-xcodebuild.3SM7TP.log
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/Box.swift:6:37: error: use of undeclared type 'CustomStringConvertible'
public final class Box<T>: BoxType, CustomStringConvertible {
                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/Box.swift:31:17: error: missing argument label 'stringInterpolationSegment:' in call
                return String(value)
                              ^
                              stringInterpolationSegment: 

[snip]

<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/MutableBox.swift:8:51: error: use of undeclared type 'CustomStringConvertible'
public final class MutableBox<T>: MutableBoxType, CustomStringConvertible {
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<project-dir>/Carthage/Checkouts/Box/Box/MutableBox.swift:25:17: error: missing argument label 'stringInterpolationSegment:' in call
                return String(value)
                              ^
                              stringInterpolationSegment: 

Update the readme to reflect the decreased need for Box in Swift 2

Multi-payload non-fixed enum layout is no longer a problem for Swift.

MutableBox.swift:18:21: error: @noescape is now an attribute on a parameter type, instead of on the parameter itself

I use cocoapods 1.2.1 manage library , then Box appended to Pod project automatically. It prompts compiling error when I configurate project mix objective-c with swift 3.

Update Cocoapods

Cocoapods needs to be updated for Swift 3 support.

Latest release not Swift 3 compatible

Could you please create another release based on the latest commit in master?