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✨ Features

• Pure cross-platform Swift client
• Typed requests and responses
• Widespread use of Result type
• Uses the power of Codable protocol for easy integration of your domain models
• Thread-safe clients
• Detailed logging
• Injectable HTTP client

💡 Getting Started

Swift Package Manager

The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code. It’s integrated with the Swift build system to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies. Since the release of Swift 5 and Xcode 11, SPM is compatible with the iOS, macOS and tvOS build systems for creating apps.

To use SwiftPM, you should use Xcode 11 to open your project. Click File -> Swift Packages -> Add Package Dependency, enter the client repo's URL.

If you're a framework author and use Swift API Client as a dependency, update your Package.swift file:

let package = Package(
    // 9.0.0 ..< 10.0.0
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-client-swift", from: "9.0.0")
    ],
    // ...
)

Cocoapods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects.

To install Algolia Swift Client, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'AlgoliaSearchClient', '~> 9.0.0'
# pod 'InstantSearchClient', '~> 7.0' // Swift 5.9 NOT YET RELEASED

Then, run the following command:

$ pod update

Carthage

Carthage is a simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa.

• To install InstantSearch, simply add the following line to your Cartfile:

github "algolia/algoliasearch-client-swift" ~> 9.0.0

• Launch the following commands from the project directory (for v.8.0+)

carthage update
./Carthage/Checkouts/algoliasearch-client-swift/carthage-prebuild
carthage build

If this is your first time using Carthage in the project, you'll need to go through some additional steps as explained over at Carthage.

You can now import the Algolia API client in your project and play with it.

Import the Core package and the required client package to your source code files:

#if canImport(Core)
    import Core
#endif
import Search

let client = try SearchClient(appID: "YOUR_APP_ID", apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY")

// Add a new record to your Algolia index
let response = try await client.saveObject(
    indexName: "<YOUR_INDEX_NAME>",
    body: ["objectID": "id", "test": "val"]
)

// Poll the task status to know when it has been indexed
try await client.waitForTask(with: response.taskID, in: "<YOUR_INDEX_NAME>")

// Fetch search results, with typo tolerance
let response: SearchResponses<Hit> = try await client
    .search(searchMethodParams: SearchMethodParams(requests: [SearchQuery.searchForHits(SearchForHits(
        query: "<YOUR_QUERY>",
        hitsPerPage: 50,
        indexName: "<YOUR_INDEX_NAME>"
    ))]))

For full documentation, visit the Algolia Swift API Client.

Notes

Objective-C support

The Swift API client is compatible with Objective-C up to version 7.0.5. Please use this version of the client if you're working with an Objective-C project.

Swift 3

You can use this library with Swift by one of the following ways:

• pod 'AlgoliaSearch-Client-Swift', '~> 4.8.1'
• pod 'AlgoliaSearch-Client-Swift', :git => 'https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-client-swift.git', :branch => 'swift-3'

Swift 4

You can use the old library with Swift by one of the following ways:

• pod 'AlgoliaSearch-Client-Swift', '~> 8.19'
• pod 'AlgoliaSearch-Client-Swift', :git => 'https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-client-swift.git', :branch => 'swift-4'

❓ Troubleshooting

Encountering an issue? Before reaching out to support, we recommend heading to our FAQ where you will find answers for the most common issues and gotchas with the client. You can also open a GitHub issue

Contributing

This repository hosts the code of the generated Algolia API client for Swift, if you'd like to contribute, head over to the main repository. You can also find contributing guides on our documentation website.

📄 License

The Algolia Swift API Client is an open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.