📦 Observely

A simple property wrapper that offers observing a value over time.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This is just me playing around and this should probably not be used in production.

Usage

Add this library as a SwiftPM dependency:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/bearjaw/Observely", .branch("master")),
]

Getting started

Consider the following counter class that can increment and decrement an Int by 1.

class Counter {

    @Observable private(set) var counter = 0
    
    // MARK: - Basic functionality
    
    func increment() {
         counter += 1
     }

     func decrement() {
         counter -= 1
     }
     
    // MARK: - Observe and react to changes

    func start(onChange: @escaping (Int) -> Void) {
        _counter.observe(self) { value in
            os_log(.debug, "Step: %@", "\(value)")
            onChange(value)
        }
    }

    deinit {
        os_log(.debug, "Gone. Bye 👋")
    }
}

Now we can observe our counter simply by accessing the wrapper and calling the observe(observer:, option:, onChange:) function. The Counter wraps this call in it's own function start(onChange:).

🚀 Further work

• [] Thread safety
• [] Add possibilty to provide a queue to receive the updates from
• [] Further improvements along the road