Avenues is a new approach to an old and famous problem – asynchronous loading of a resource, the most common example of which is populating an image from a remote location. The main advantage of Avenues is that it makes the whole process much more transparent and controllable.
In contrast to other libraries which solves the same problem, Avenues doesn't sacrifice "right" for "neat". Instead, Avenues is highly customizable, unopiniated about your business-logic, and very transparent. You can use it as a simple out-of-the-box solution, or you can get your hands dirty and customize it to fully fit your needs.
After all, Avenues is a really small, component-based project, so if you need even more controllable solution – build one yourself! Our source code is there to help.
struct Entry {
let text: String
let imageURL: URL
}
final class ExampleTableViewController : UITableViewController {
var entries: [Entry] = []
let avenue = Avenue.images() // Avenue<URL, UIImage>
override func viewDidLoad() {
tableView.register(EntryTableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "example")
}
override func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
return 1
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return entries.count
}
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "example", for: indexPath) as! EntryTableViewCell
let entry = entries[indexPath.row]
cell.entryLabel.text = entry.text
avenue.register(cell.entryImageView, for: entry.imageURL)
}
}