SugarRecord is a data management library designed to make working with CoreData and Realm simpler. Thanks to SugarRecord you’ll be able to use CoreData/Realm with just a few lines of code:
- Choose your preferred stack from the provided stacks (you can also implement your own!)
- Enjoy how easy database operations are with our library
The library is completely written in Swift and is fully tested to ensure the behavior is as expected.
NOTE: We have a Google Group where you can leave your questions, doubts, suggestions, and other comments [here]. We also have a blog where we’ll post about the library’s development which you can check out [here].
The library was started by @pepibumur and is now maintained by @dchavezlive
- Support for Realm and CoreData using same syntax
- Multiple stacks (for Realm, CoreData, CoreData+iCloud)
- Simple and modern syntax, forget about complicated lines of code to fetch your last 20 users!
- Written 100% in Swift and compatible with Swift projects
- Compatible with OSX and iOS
- Fully documented with a playground tutorial and an updated Wiki page
- Fully tested (all components are tested using XCTest)
- Actively supported, issues covered in less than a week.
- More powerful features to discover!
The scheme above shows the structure of SugarRecord. It's formed by:
- Database Models Extensions: Adds our custom syntax that links these models with SugarRecord and the database.
- Finder: SugarRecord custom element to abstract the querying components from the type of storage (Realm or CoreData)
- Core: Main component of the library that translates Save/Delete/Find calls into the appropriate internal operations for the stack.
- SugarRecord contexts: Although Realm doesn't have contexts as we have in CoreData, we have created abstracted contexts that surround the user operations with models independently of which stack you’re using. Yeah!
- Stack: The storage stack is another key piece in SugarRecord because it knows how and when to persist/fetch/delete your objects into the database. You can tell SugarRecord which stack it should use.
If you want to stay updated we have a mailing list. We'll send emails with new updates, features, important bugs fixed, ...
| Date | Done |
|---|---|
| 8th-January-2015 | Fixed Travis-CI Integration |
| 8th-January-2015 | Finally added CocoaPods support and updated the Wiki |
| 3st-January-2015 | Solved issue modo-studio#101 |
| 29th-December-2014 | Version 1.0.5 released |
| 29th-December-2014 | Separated SugarRecordResults Logic modo-studio#98 |
| 25th-December-2014 | Version 1.0.4 released |
| 25th-December-2014 | Added Realm example |
| 25th-December-2014 | Added a continuous integration local script |
| 25th-December-2014 | Updated Realm to 0.89 |
| 25th-December-2014 | Setup SugaRecord.podspec file |
- Features
- Versions
- Version 1.0.7 [WIP]
- Version 1.0.6
- Version 1.0.5
- Version 1.0.4
- Requirements
- Wiki
- Support
- Useful Swift Resources
- License
- Who uses SugarRecord?
- For beginners and advanced users
- Fully customizable. Implement your own stack and set it as your SugarRecord stack to work with.
- Friendly syntax. Forget about NSPredicates and NSSortDescriptors
- You can change between different stacks without affecting to the rest of your app.
- In case of a transition from CoreData to Realm or viceversa you've only to ensure the objecs have the same property names, and nothing more.
- Background operations are automatically managed by Sugar Record
- Support for Realm and CoreData using the same syntax
- Multiple stacks (for Realm, CoreData, CoreData+iCloud)
- Sugar syntax, forget about complicated lines of code to fetch your last 20 users!
- Written 100% in Swift and compatible with Swift projects (in case of Objective-C a wrapper is needed)
- Compatible with OSX and iOS
- Fully documented with a playground tutorial and an updated Wiki page
- Fully tested (all components are tested using XCTest)
- Actively supported, issues covered in less than a week.
- More powerful features to discover!
- Fixed autosaving feature on DefaultCDStack
- Use of printable instead of StringLiteralConvertible
- Reviewed the CI script (still not working travis :( )
- Fixed a regression introduced with 1.0.4 that caused users having to import Realm/CoreData even if they were using another database technology modo-studio#99
- Updated the project structure and added easy setup steps (without CocoaPods)
- Added example project
- Added high performance count method
- Added SugarRecordResults type for results (inspired on RLMResults)
- Xcode 6
- iOS 7.0+ / Mac OS X 10.9+
- If you have troubles with the compilation try to clean the DerivedData Xcode directory:
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/
If you want to know about how to use SugarRecord we have some Wiki pages in the repo to guide you through the integration in your project. Availble Wiki pages are:
- About SugarRecord: Link
- Setup SugarRecord: Link
- Working with Stacks: Link
- Operations: Link
- Advanced operations with SugarRecord: Link
- Mapping models: Link
- Advices: Link
- Contribution tips: Link
If you want to communicate any issue, suggestion or even make a contribution, you have to keep in mind the flow bellow:
- If you need help, ask your doubt in Stack Overflow using the tag 'sugarrecord'
- If you want to ask something in general, use Stack Overflow too.
- Open an issue either when you have an error to report or a feature request.
- If you want to contribute, submit a pull request, and remember the rules to follow related with the code style, testing, ...
- Tests with Swift (Matt): http://nshipster.com/xctestcase/
- Quick, a library for testing written in swift https://github.com/modocache/personal-fork-of-Quick
- CoreData and threads with GCD: http://www.cimgf.com/2011/05/04/core-data-and-threads-without-the-headache/
- Alamofire, the swift AFNetworking: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
- Jazzy, a library to generate documentation: https://github.com/realm/jazzy
- How to document your project: http://www.raywenderlich.com/66395/documenting-in-xcode-with-headerdoc-tutorial
- Tests interesting articles: http://www.objc.io/issue-15/
- iCloud + CoreData (objc.io): http://www.objc.io/issue-10/icloud-core-data.html
- Appledoc, documentation generator: https://github.com/tomaz/appledoc
- AlecrimCoreData: https://github.com/Alecrim/AlecrimCoreData
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Copyright (c) <2014> <Pedro Piñera>
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If you are currently using SugarRecord in your app, let me know and I'll add it to the list.
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