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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

You're reading from   Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift Write maintainable, flexible, and extensible code using the power of TDD with Swift 5.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232485
Length 280 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 –The Basics of Test-Driven iOS Development
2. Chapter 1: Your First Unit Tests FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Test-Driven Development 4. Chapter 3: Test-Driven Development in Xcode 5. Section 2 –The Data Model
6. Chapter 4: The App We Are Going to Build 7. Chapter 5: Building a Structure for ToDo Items 8. Chapter 6: Testing, Loading, and Saving Data 9. Section 3 –Views and View Controllers
10. Chapter 7: Building a Table View Controller for the To-Do Items 11. Chapter 8: Building a Simple Detail View 12. Chapter 9: Test-Driven Input View in SwiftUI 13. Section 4 –Networking and Navigation
14. Chapter 10: Testing Networking Code 15. Chapter 11: Easy Navigation with Coordinators 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Refactoring to a diffable data source

In iOS 13, Apple introduced the UITableViewDiffableDataSource class. This class manages the update of a table view when the data changes and it can be used as the data source of any table view. It should be used, when possible, because implementing updates of a table view is a bit complicated and can lead to strange bugs and even crashes. In addition, the code needed to set up such a data source is often easier to read and reason about than the traditional implementation we used in the previous section.

Follow these steps to transform our implementation to one that uses a diffable data source:

  1. A diffable data source manages the data in the table view using a section and an item that both need to conform to the Hashable protocol. We already have an item we can use in the diffable data source, the ToDoItem structure. However, this structure does not yet conform to Hashable. To make it conform to that protocol, add the following code to...
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