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Show HN: Swift SOAP Client library through code generation
- bouke 10y agoAuthor here, happy to answer any questions.
- brian_herman 10y agoThis is amazing!
- drmohundro 10y agoThis looks great - I was working with an old iOS app back when Swift was first released and I wrote an XML parsing library SOLELY because the SOAP support was horrific. I think this will help a lot of people. If you don't mind, I might add a link to your repo from my README just to help point people towards a better approach over manual XML parsing.
- bouke 10y agoThank you! links are fine of-course; the more the merrier.
- joelhaasnoot 10y agoI pitty anyone writing direct SOAP interfaces for an iOS app. From a few years of app dev, at the end of the day it makes everthing a lot more flexible if proxied, even with a tiny facade, because it gives you options and choices when it comes to making changes.
- troels 10y agoGood point. Wouldn't you usually do this on a server and then expose a sane api to the ios app? Who consumes SOAP directly in ios?
- bouke 10y agoSure it might not make sense to use SOAP for communication between an iOS app and its server-side counterpart. However when writing consumers of an existing SOAP service, for example in an macOS or console application; it might make more sense.
- joelhaasnoot 10y agoOr server-side swift for that matter...
- spdustin 10y agoWhy is it called Lark? SOAP is sometimes referred to as a fat messaging protocol. Swift is an elegant bird. A Lark sometimes looks like a fat bird. Excellent sense of humor, and a really useful library. Thanks a bunch for sharing!
- mvantellingen 10y agoCool! As the author of a relative new python soap client (zeep) i do feel sorry for you Most wsdl documents dont follow the various specs which will result in a lot of support issues from users Anyway feel free to contact me if you have any spec related questions
- bouke 10y agoCool project, seems like a nice improvement over what I've used in the past (suds). Also has some features that Lark currently lacks (SOAP 1.2 / HTTP bindings / rpc / WS-Addressing / WSSE).
- wing328hk 10y agoIf anyone is looking for an auto-generated Swift REST client, please give Swagger Codegen [1] a try and the latest master supports both Swift 2.x and 3. [1]: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen Disclaimer: I'm a top contributor to the project.