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On last week’s livestream we demo’d a powerful SQL query building library we are developing. It’s type safe, composable, constructs valid SQL and leverages some of Swift's most powerful features, such as key paths, macros and variadic generics.

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Point-Free1 year ago

We will have a lot more to share about the library soon, but for now get a sneak peek from the recording of our livestream:

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Ian Keen1 year ago

Love this, I have a macro based typesafe query dsl as well that I’ve been using for a while. I would gladly stop building it in favour of a pointfree version 😂

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Point-Free1 year ago

Let us know if you want to compare notes sometime!

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camsoft20001 year ago

Don’t know what I think about this. Very impressive but it feels very much like the Swift HTML DSLs everyone was making a few years ago. SQL is powerful because it’s concisely expresses complex scenarios using just a string.

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Point-Free1 year ago

The DSL tries to stay as true to SQL as possible but also provides an escape hatch for writing raw SQL anywhere in a query: .where { $0.date > .raw("datetime('now' , '-7 days')") } Can you explain your comment about HTML DSLs? Not sure we see the relevance here.

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Max Smirnov1 year ago

How do you make it to display and update in a preview? Simply #Preview { Text(query.sqlString) }? That’s a neat trick

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Point-Free1 year ago

Yep that’s it! 🙂

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