Advanced Swift: Error Handling
May 28 2019 · Video Course (21 mins) · Advanced
Production code is all about handling errors: programming errors, user input errors, asynchronous errors. This course covers the error fundamentals you need to know.
Version
- Swift 5, iOS 12, Xcode 10
Robust error handling is a hallmark of high-quality, production code. Let's learn the many ways we can do this.
Optionals are a great way of handling superficial errors. Asserts and preconditions can trap programming errors.
Try/catch Basics
3:46In this video, learn about how the native error system lets you propagate error information with ease.
Defining an Error
1:42Let's take a look at how you can define useful errors that let clients take appropriate action in this video.
App developers deal with errors from UIKit and other Objective-C libraries. Find out how they work with Swift.
The Result Type
3:52Using a result type is a great way to deal with asynchronous results that may end in error. We explore this useful algebraic type.
Add a couple of methods with proper error handling to a File abstraction that uses unsafe Swift to interop with posix and behaves like a Sequence.
Conclusion
2:31Correct error handling is life or death important in many contexts. Apply the concepts you learned here in your app today.
Who is this for?
This course is for developers interested in getting a deeper understanding of the Swift language. It expects you to be comfortable with the basic syntax of Swift and to have perhaps written an app or two. You should be familiar with basic types in the Swift standard library.
Covered concepts
This course focuses on:
- How to express errors
- try/catch basics
- Obj-C errors
- Result types
- Optionals
- Asserts
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