SwiftSQLite

This is an SQLite wrapper/binding for Apple's Swift language, that's low level enough to be quick to learn and easy to use for anyone that has used sqlite previously.

Object oriented

As sqlite itself is largely laid out in an object oriented fashion, this library appropriately wraps to an appropriate object oriented design (e.g. *sqlite3_stmt and any C functional that takes *sqlite3_stmt as its first parameter are mapped to the Swift class SQLiteStatement).

Setting up the database

The code is largely proof-of-concept and is intended as code drop to get you started. There are however to main functions you should find useful for initialising/manipulating databases: SQLiteDatabase.createDatabaseWithFilename(filename: String, withBlankDatabaseFilename blankDatabaseFilename: String) and SQLiteDatabase.deleteDatabase(filename: String). Both return a true or false value for whether or not the operation completed successfully.

Using a database

Once you have a working database setup, you'll have to initialize a SQLiteDatabase object first, as follows:

let database = SQLiteDatabase()

This will usually then require you to open the database:

database.open("myDatabse.sqlite")

This design is effectively a Swift/Object-oriented version of the lower level C SQLite, which presumes you make create a database but then open it later, hence why the open operation is not rolled into the constructor. Also, open returns a status code for whether the call was successful or not.

Example usage

let database = SQLiteDatabase()

database.open("myDatabse.sqlite")

let statement = SQLiteStatement(database: database)

if ( statement.prepare("SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE Id = ?") != .Ok )
{
    /* handle error */
}

statement.bindInt(1, value: 123)

if ( statement.step() == .Row )
{
    /* do something with statement */
    let id:Int = statement.getIntAt(0)
    let stringValue:String? = statement.getStringAt(1)
    let boolValue:Bool = statement.getBoolAt(2)
    let dateValue:NSDate? = statement.getDateAt(3)
}

statement.finalizeStatement() /* not called finalize() due to destructor/language keyword */

Work in progress

These classes are very bare at the moment. Feel free to flesh them out more, improve them and push your changes so I can incorporate them.

Copyright

You may do whatever you want to with these classes. NOTE: As of v2.0, for extra assurance, I've added the MIT license to all code file headers.

Contact

Contact me via chris@victoryonemedia.com or http://twitter.com/ChrisMSimpson if you have any questions or improvements.

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