Swifty WebService - Open Sourcing Flipkart iOS App's Networking Stack
summary
Flipkart open sources Swifty + WebService: a networking stack that is 100% Swift but callable from Objective‑C, with declarative request-as-function syntax, Network Request Throttling and Prioritization, request/response interceptors, constraints that block until async preconditions complete, a mock modifier for canned responses and a task inspector. Benchmarks claim Swifty often outperforms Alamofire, though retry, HTTP digest and certificate‑pinning are noted missing; the stack is extensible and enforces compile‑time checks like disallowing bodies on GET.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:20Agenda
- 1:30Capabilities
- 2:15Where to keep my networking code?
- 3:10Let's Look at Artsy
- 18:27Extending Web Service
- 20:49Constraints
- 24:25Request Interceptors
- 25:22Response Interceptors
- 26:26The Best of Both Worlds
- 28:58Performance Benchmarks
- 29:43Limitations
- 30:03Roadmap
- 31:53The Swifty Inspector
- 32:24Open Source








