Handling errors is one of the less enjoyable aspects of software development, but it is an important one. You don't want to show the user a cryptic error message when something goes wrong, or worse, no error message. There is no clear-cut recipe you can follow. Every project is different. The good news is that error handling is built into Swift and the Combine framework. Let me show you how we can improve the code we wrote in the previous episode.
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Building a Modern Networking Layer in Swift
Handling Errors
by Bart Jacobs in Networking
Swift 5
Xcode 13
iOS 15
Building a Modern Networking Layer in Swift
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06:30
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08:01
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3 Handling Errors
09:24
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09:27
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5 Making the API Client Extensible
08:04
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10:07
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08:16
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8 Working with Protected Resources
10:07
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09:55
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09:49
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12 Creating and Updating Video Progress
06:40
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07:57
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14 Unit Testing the Networking Layer
10:32
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15 Unit Testing Asynchronous Code
07:45
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16 Stubbing the Cocoacasts API
08:42
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18 Enabling Code Coverage to Find Gaps
07:10
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20 Writing the Wrong Unit Tests
11:55
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21 Writing Unit Tests for Edge Cases
08:25
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22 Catching Bugs with Unit Tests
11:05
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11:04
