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Model framework for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch applications

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Proton is a utility framework for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch that provides tools useful for building a powerful model layer.

Features

  • A simple and extensible system for bindings, suitable for use on iOS and for replacing Cocoa Bindings on OS X
  • Components to make Core Data easier to use, including:
    • PROCoreDataManager, to manage all the resources associated with a single database
    • Support for copying managed objects between contexts
    • Support for encoding and decoding managed objects to and from property lists
    • Convenience methods on NSManagedObject and NSManagedObjectContext so callers have to write less code
  • A class for key-value observing that makes it easier to manage the observation of many different objects or key paths
  • A couple macros to check key paths at compile time (i.e., fail to build when an invalid key path is used)
  • Higher-order functions (map, filter, fold) for all built-in collection classes
  • Extensions to NSUndoManager to support blocks and make it simpler to manage undo groupings
  • PROFuture, an extremely fast and simple implementation of block-based futures

All of the above features are unit tested, to validate the typical use cases and detect any future breakage.

Proton has been built with the Model-View-ViewModel architectural pattern in mind. The PROViewModel abstract class can serve as a base for any application-specific view model layer.

Dependencies

All dependencies can be retrieved by running git submodule update --init --recursive from the top level of the repository.

  • Xcode projects in the repository are configured using prebuilt xcconfigs
  • The unit tests for Proton are written using Specta and Expecta
  • Logging is implemented using the CocoaLumberjack logging framework
  • Parts of libextobjc and SafeDispatch are used in Proton (but are already present in the repository)

License

Proton is released under a modified version of the 3-clause BSD license. See the LICENSE file for more information.

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