Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combine: Functional Programming to Build UIs on Apple Platforms

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P. FrieseAsynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8572-5_12

12. Wrapping Existing APIs in Combine

Peter Friese¹  

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Hamburg, Germany

 

Apple provides Combine publishers for many of their APIs, making it easy for us to integrate those APIs in our Combine pipelines. However, there are many APIs that don’t support Combine even though they produce events over time. Thankfully, Apple gives us the tools we need to wrap APIs in Combine publishers and make them accessible to Combine pipelines.

In this chapter, I’m going to walk you through the process of wrapping existing APIs using Combine.

A Case Study

We’re going to use a ...