Build and Run

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      Description — Build and run a starter app to validate your install of Couchbase Lite on Swift

      Quick Steps

      1. Create a new Swift project as outlined in Install

      2. Open the new project’s ViewController.swift module in Xcode

      3. Replace the boiler-plate code with the code shown in Example 1

      4. Build and run the 'app'
        You should see — Figure 1 — the document ID and property printed to the 'console log', indicating that a document was created successfully persisted to the database, updated and queried.

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      Figure 1. Example app output
      Example 1. Code snippet

      This snippet demonstrates how to run basic CRUD operations, a simple Query and optionally running bi-directional replications with Sync Gateway.

      //
      //  ViewController.swift
      //  threeBeta01prod
      //
      //  Created by Ian Bridge on 04/10/2021.
      //
      
      import UIKit
      import CouchbaseLiteSwift
      
      class ViewController: UIViewController {
      
          override func viewDidLoad() {
              super.viewDidLoad()
              // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
      
              getStarted(testReplication: false)
      }
      
      
          func getStarted (testReplication: Bool) {
              // Get the database (and create it if it doesn’t exist).
              let database: Database
              do {
                  database = try Database(name: "mydb")
              } catch {
                  fatalError("Error opening database")
              }
      
              // Create a new document (i.e. a record) in the database.
              let mutableDoc = MutableDocument()
                  .setFloat(2.0, forKey: "version")
                  .setString("SDK", forKey: "type")
      
              // Save it to the database.
              do {
                  try database.saveDocument(mutableDoc)
              } catch {
                  fatalError("Error saving document")
              }
              print("Created document id type \(mutableDoc.id)? with type = \(mutableDoc.string(forKey: "type")!)")
      
      
              // Update a document.
              if let mutableDoc = database.document(withID: mutableDoc.id)?.toMutable() {
                  mutableDoc.setString("Swift", forKey: "language")
                  do {
                      try database.saveDocument(mutableDoc)
      
                      let document = database.document(withID: mutableDoc.id)!
                      // Log the document ID (generated by the database)
                      // and properties
                      print("Updated document id \(document.id), adding language \(document.string(forKey: "language")!)")
                  } catch {
                      fatalError("Error updating document")
                  }
              }
      
              // Create a query to fetch documents of type SDK.
              print("Querying Documents of type=SDK")
              let query = QueryBuilder
                  .select(SelectResult.all())
                  .from(DataSource.database(database))
                  .where(Expression.property("type").equalTo(Expression.string("SDK")))
      
              // Run the query.
              do {
                  let result = try query.execute()
                  print("Number of rows :: \(result.allResults().count)")
              } catch {
                  fatalError("Error running the query")
              }
      
              if testReplication {
                  // Create replicators to push and pull changes to and from the cloud.
                  let targetEndpoint = URLEndpoint(url: URL(string: "ws://localhost:4984/getting-started-db")!)
                  var replConfig = ReplicatorConfiguration(database: database, target: targetEndpoint)
                  replConfig.replicatorType = .pushAndPull
      
                  // Add authentication.
                  replConfig.authenticator = BasicAuthenticator(username: "john", password: "pass")
      
                  // Create replicator (make sure to add an instance or static variable named replicator)
                  let replicator = Replicator(config: replConfig)
      
                  // Listen to replicator change events.
                  replicator.addChangeListener { (change) in
                      if let error = change.status.error as NSError? {
                          print("Error code :: \(error.code)")
                      }
                  }
      
                  // Start replication.
                  replicator.start()
              } else {
                  print("Not testing replication")
              }
          }
      }