SwiftData Enhances Queries, Adds Support for External Types and Data Store Observation
The latest update to SwiftData introduces support for Codable types, allowing developers to integrate third-party data models more easily. It also adds a sectionBy parameter for queries and a ResultObserver for improved data monitoring.
Why it matters
These updates improve the developer experience for iOS and macOS app development, simplifying complex data management tasks.
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Codable attributes solve a limitation in SwiftData when integrating custom or third-party types into a model. Since you do not control a third-party reference type, you cannot mark it with @Model . As a result, it cannot be included directly into a model, because SwiftData is unable to generate a schema for it.
With the new release, though, a third-party type can work seamlessly with SwiftData as long as it conforms to the Codable protocol. In the following example, ExLocation is a value type that we do not control, originating either from the iOS SDK or a third-party library:
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