Primary key in Realm

Original post https://github.com/onmyway133/blog/issues/4

Realm is great. But without primary key, it will duplicate the record, like https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues/2730, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32322460/should-i-define-the-primary-key-for-each-entity-in-realm, ... So to force ourselves into the good habit of declaring primary key, we can leverage Swift protocol

Create primary constrain protocol like this

protocol PrimaryKeyAware {
  var id: Int { get }
  static func primaryKey() -> String?
}

and conform it in out Realm object

class Profile: Object, PrimaryKeyAware {

  dynamic var firstName: String = ""
  dynamic var lastName: String = ""
  dynamic var id: Int = 0

  override static func primaryKey() -> String? {
    return "id"
  }
}

This way, when using that object in out RealmStorage, we are safe to say that it has a primary key

class RealmStorage<T: Object> where T: PrimaryKeyAware {
  let realm: Realm

  init(realm: Realm = RealmProvider.realm()) {
    self.realm = realm
  }

  func save(_ objects: [T]) {
    try? realm.write {
      realm.add(objects, update: true)
    }
  }
}

The usage is like this

let profile = Profile()
let storage = RealmStorage<Profile>()
storage.save([profile])