Box Swift SDK GENERATED

We are excited to introduce the latest generation (currently in Beta) of Box Swift SDK Gen, designed to elevate the developer experience and streamline your integration with the Box Content Cloud.

With this SDK, you’ll have access to:

1. Full API Support: The new generation of Box SDKs empowers developers with complete coverage of the Box API ecosystem. You can now access all the latest features and functionalities offered by Box, allowing you to build even more sophisticated and feature-rich applications.
2. Rapid API Updates: Say goodbye to waiting for new Box APIs to be incorporated into the SDK. With our new auto-generation development approach, we can now add new Box APIs to the SDK at a much faster pace (in a matter of days). This means you can leverage the most up-to-date features in your applications without delay.
3. Embedded Documentation: We understand that easy access to information is crucial for developers. With our new approach, we have included comprehensive documentation for all objects and parameters directly in the source code of the SDK. This means you no longer need to look up this information on the developer portal, saving you time and streamlining your development process.
4. Enhanced Convenience Methods: Our commitment to enhancing your development experience continues with the introduction of convenience methods. These methods cover various aspects such as chunk uploads, classification, and much more.
5. Seamless Start: The new SDKs integrate essential functionalities like authentication, automatic retries with exponential backoff, exception handling, request cancellation, and type checking, enabling you to focus solely on your application's business logic.

Embrace the new generation of Box SDKs and unlock the full potential of the Box Content Cloud.

Table of contents

• Box Swift SDK GENERATED
• Table of contents
• Installing
  • Swift Package Manager
  • Carthage
  • CocoaPods
• Getting Started
• Integration Tests
  • Running integration tests locally
    • Create Custom Application
    • Export configuration
    • Running tests
• Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?
• Copyright and License

Installing

Swift Package Manager

The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code. It’s integrated with the Swift build system to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies.

To add a dependency to your Xcode project, click on Xcode project file on Packages Dependencies and click on the plus icon to add a package. Then enter the following repository url https://github.com/box/box-swift-sdk-gen.git and click next.

Alternatively you can add a dependency to the dependencies value of your Package.swift.

For detailed instructions, please see the official documentation for SPM.

Carthage

Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager which builds your dependencies and provides you with binary frameworks.

To add a dependency to BoxSdkGen, you need to add the following line to your Cartfile :

git "https://github.com/box/box-swift-sdk-gen.git"

Then run:

carthage bootstrap --use-xcframeworks

And finally drag the built xcframework from Carthage/Build into your project.

For more detailed instructions, please see the official documentation for Carthage.

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. To start using BoxSdkGen with CocoaPods, you need to add BoxSdkGen dependency to your Podfile:

pod 'BoxSdkGen'

Then run the following command in your project directory:

$ pod install

Now open your [project].xcworkspace and build.

For more detailed instructions, please see the official documentation for Cocoapods.

Getting Started

To get started with the SDK, get a Developer Token from the Configuration page of your app in the Box Developer Console. You can use this token to make test calls for your own Box account.

The SDK provides a BoxDeveloperTokenAuth class, which allows you to authenticate using your Developer Token. Use instance of BoxDeveloperTokenAuth to initialize BoxClient object. Using BoxClient object you can access managers, which allow you to perform some operations on your Box account.

The example below demonstrates how to authenticate with Developer Token and print names of all items inside a root folder.

import BoxSdkGen

let auth = BoxDeveloperTokenAuth(token: "DEVELOPER_TOKEN_GOES_HERE")
let client = BoxClient(auth: auth)

let items = try await client.folders.getFolderItems(folderId: "0")
if let entries = items.entries {
    for entry in entries {
        switch entry {
        case let .fileMini(file):
            print("file \(file.name!) [\(file.id)]")
        case let .folderMini(folder):
            print("folder \(folder.name!) [\(folder.id)]")
        case let .webLinkMini(webLink):
            print("webLink \(webLink.name!) [\(webLink.id)]")
        }
    }
}

The usage docs that show how to make calls to the Box API with the SDK can be found here.

We recommend, familiarizing yourself with the remaining authentication methods, uploading files and downloading files.

Integration Tests

Running integration tests locally

Create Custom Application

To run integration tests locally you will need a Custom App created in the Box Developer Console with Server Authentication (Client Credentials Grant) selected as authentication method. Once created you can edit properties of the application:

• In section App Access Level select App + Enterprise Access. You can enable all Application Scopes.
• In section Advanced Features enable Make API calls using the as-user header and Generate user access tokens.

Now select Authorization and submit application to be reviewed by account admin.

Export configuration

To run integration tests, you need several environment variables specifying your account and the Box application you've created.

1. Set the CLIENT_ID environment variable to its corresponding value from the Configuration tab in the section OAuth 2.0 Credentials of your application.
2. Set the CLIENT_SECRET environment variable to its corresponding value from the Configuration tab in the section OAuth 2.0 Credentials of your application.
3. Set the ENTERPRISE_ID environment variable to its corresponding value from the General Settings tab the section App Info of your application.
4. Set the USER_ID environment variable to its corresponding value from the General Settings tab the section App Info of your application.
5. Set the BOX_FILE_REQUEST_ID environment variable to the ID of file request already created in the user account, BOX_EXTERNAL_USER_EMAIL with email of free external user which not belongs to any enterprise.
6. Set the WORKFLOW_FOLDER_ID envornment variable to the ID of the Relay workflow that deletes the file that triggered the workflow. The workflow should have a manual start to be able to start it from the API.
7. Set environment variable: APP_ITEM_ASSOCIATION_FILE_ID to the ID of the file with associated app item and APP_ITEM_ASSOCIATION_FOLDER_ID to the ID of the folder with associated app item.

Running tests

To run integration tests locally:

1. swift test

Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests?

Need to contact us directly? Browse the issues tickets! Or, if that doesn't work, file a new one and we will get back to you. If you have general questions about the Box API, you can post to the Box Developer Forum.

Copyright and License

Copyright 2023 Box, Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.