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4.0
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This is a new major version, bringing incompatible changes, most of them due to Swift 3 support.

Note: You can find a detailed change log and migration instructions in the Migration guide to version 4.x.

Warning: This version requires Swift 3; it will not compile with Swift 2.x.

Warning: Cocoapods support for Swift 3 requires Cocoapods 1.1.0.rc.2 or later.

Swift 3 support

  • Adapt to the new Foundation API
  • Follow the Swift API Design Guidelines:
    • Argument labels:
      • Omit the first argument when the function name contains a complement (e.g. addObject) or when the purpose is obvious (search: with a query)
      • Label the first argument when the purpose is not obvious and not contained in the method name (e.g. batch(operations:))
      • Label all completion handlers explicitly. This is the convention adopted by the system's libraries (e.g. URLSession.dataTask(with:completionHandler:). Since the completion handler is likely to be a closure, the block can be moved out of the call site anyway, so the label is only required when passing a function/block reference.
    • Method names:
      • browse is now overloaded: browse(query:) and browse(from:).
    • Rename enum members to lower camel case
    • Rename constants to lower camel case (except notification names)
  • Better Objective-C mappings
    • Adjust method names when necessary for a better fit with this language
    • Objective-C specific types are no longer visible in Swift (well, technically, they still are, but you have to look harder...)
    • No underscore-suffixed properties any longer
  • Better typing
    • Use Error instead of NSError in completion handlers
      • Use dedicated error types
    • Use @discardableResult for methods returning Operation
    • Use Notification.Name for notifications
  • Prevent subclassing by not adopting the open access modifier

Other breaking changes

  • (Swift only) Better typing of complex properties through enums
  • Rename Index.indexName to Index.name.
  • Refactor index search cache handling into two properties to enable/disable (searchCacheEnabled) it and set the expiration delay (searchCacheExpiringTimeInterval), and one method to clear it (clearSearchCache())
  • Rename "slaves" to "replicas"

Other improvements

  • Improve cancellation of Index.waitTask()
  • Add tests for Objective-C bridging (online flavor only)
  • Make timeouts configurable
  • Index instances are now shared across a Client
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