Storyboard Controller

StoryboardController provides you with a mechanism to inject dependencies into view controllers that are initialised from the storyboard which the controller monitors.

Why is it useful?

In order to inject dependencies into view controllers, it is common to use one of the following patterns:

prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) in a parent view controller (with storyboard)
custom initalisers (no storyboard)

However, the above solutions do not clearly isolate each view controller as each of the them will have to understand how the next one works in order to inject their dependencies.

You end up with a dependency graph that looks like this:

ViewControllerA <- ViewControllerB <- ViewControllerC <- etc.

This makes it very hard to launch only ViewControllerC from somewhere else in the application as it obtains its dependencies from ViewControllerB, which in turn obtains its dependencies from ViewControllerA.

On the other hand, when using the StoryboardController, the dependency graph looks like this:

StoryboardController <- ViewControllerA
                     <- ViewControllerB
                     <- ViewControllerC

which makes it possible to initialise ViewControllerC with its dependencies from anywhere in your application without having to interact with the other view controllers.

Installation

Currently only supports the iOS platform as it relies on a subclass of UIStoryboard.

Carthage

Add the following to your Cartfile:

github "outware/storyboardcontroller"

Then run carthage update --platform iOS.

Refer to Carthage's README for up-to-date installation instructions.

Example

final class FooStoryboardController: StoryboardController {

  var storyboardName: String = "Foo"

  func injectDependencies(into viewController: UIViewController) {

    switch viewController {

    case let viewController as BarViewController:
      viewController.viewModel = BarViewModel()

    default: break
    }
  }

}

import StoryboardController

A sample project is available here.

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Contributing to this project

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Fork this repository,
Improve stuff,
Run carthage build --no-skip-current and fix any issues that arise, and
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