[swift-evolution] Add transformers to Codable

[Goffredo Marocchi]

+1 this is missing functionality at the moment and what still puts tools like Mantle ahead.

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> On 19 Dec 2017, at 04:18, Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> For me definitely +1 as it's getting near to what I need to call the Decoding usable.
> 
>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 5:51 PM, Arsen Gasparyan via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I’m suggesting to add a new way to encode/decode JSON properties for relevantly complex data formats such as regular expressions, well-known text, hex colours, custom date formats.
>> 
>> The problem:
>> 
>> Image you have a struct called House
>> 
>> struct House {
>>     let color: UIColor
>> }
>> 
>> and it has a properly called color and the color represented in JSON as hex value (#ffffff). Currently to make it working you have to extract the underline value (string with a hex value) and then try to make a UIColor from it. It works but it makes you to copy/past a lot of code and it leads to problems. Also it shifts focus from what to decode to how to decode.
>> 
>> The suggested solution:
>> 
>> I suggest that we have to introduce protocols for classes that will encapsulate transformation from a source data type to a destination data type. The source data types are all existing data that support of decoding. 
>> 
>> We will provide only protocols (one for decoding and one for encoding) and users will be able to create transformers for their own data types.
>> 
>> The implementation:
>> 
>> The implementation is fairly easy. We only need introduce two protocols (encoding/decoding) and add a method to KeyedEncodingContainerProtocol that will accept a key and a transformer. In the method we will extract source data from JSON and then will ask the transformer to try to convert it to the desire data type.
>> 
>> Example of the decoding protocol:
>> 
>> protocol DecodingTransformer {
>>     associatedtype Input: Decodable
>>     associatedtype Output
>>     func transform(_ decoded: Input) throws -> Output
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> Inspired by: https://github.com/Hearst-DD/ObjectMapper#custom-transforms
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Arsen
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