Swift 4 Codable : Common struct for all model - ios

Question

Here i am getting API response of all of my api.
{
"success" : true,
"message" : "",
"data" : {
/multipal data parameter/
}
}
And here is my codable model
struct Login: Codable {
let success: Bool
let message: String
let data: Data
struct Data: Codable {
}
}
How can i create common Sturct for success and message parameter.

Answer 1

You can make the root struct representing the network response generic, this will allow you to keep the success and message parts common between all specialised responses.
struct NetworkResponse<ResponseData:Codable>: Codable {
let success: Bool
let message: String
let data: ResponseData
}
You shouldn't create custom types with the same name as built in types, since that will lead to confusion, especially for other people reading your code, so I renamed your custom Data type to ResponseData.
For instance you can create a LoginResponse model and decode it like below. You can do the same for other responses from the same API.
let loginResponse = """
{
"success" : true,
"message" : "",
"data" : {
"username":"test",
"token":"whatever"
}
}
"""
struct LoginResponse: Codable {
let username: String
let token: String
}
do {
print(try JSONDecoder().decode(NetworkResponse<LoginResponse>.self, from: Data(loginResponse.utf8)))
} catch {
print(error)
}

Answer 2

Common structure :
I have created something like that
struct statusModel<T:Codable>: Codable {
let message : String
let resultData : [T]?
let status : Int
enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
case message = "message"
case resultData = "resultData"
case status = "status"
}
}
Regular model (resultData)
struct modelInitialize : Codable {
let profileimgurl : String?
let projecturl : String?
enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
case profileimgurl = "profileimgurl"
case projecturl = "projecturl"
}
}
You can set like as below
do {
guard let reponseData = responseData.value else {return} //Your webservice response in Data
guard let finalModel = try?JSONDecoder().decode(statusModel<modelInitialize>.self, from: reponseData) else {return}
}