Category: Swift

Kitura Sample: A Swift Server example demonstrating the features of Kitura.

by Andrew Lees on October 2, 2018 in Kitura, Open Source, Swift, Web Framework

We have rewritten the Kitura Sample demo application to better showcase the capabilities of Kitura. This update adds interactive webpages so you can try out...

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Announcing Kitura 2.5

by Ian_Partridge on September 1, 2018 in Kitura, Linux, Open Source, Swift, Web Framework

Kitura 2.5 has recently been released – the latest update to the popular and powerful Swift web framework. Enhanced OpenAPI support Kitura 2.4 introduced support...

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Pluggable JSON encoders in Kitura 2.5

by Andrew Lees on September 1, 2018 in Kitura, Open Source, Swift, Web Framework

Codable routing allows you to quickly build REST APIs that work directly with concrete Swift types. Kitura achieves this by using the Codable protocol to...

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JSON Web Tokens with Swift-JWT

by Kye Maloy on August 2, 2018 in Kitura, Open Source, Security, Swift

Authorisation is an important part of any web service, and JSON Web Tokens, or JWTs, have risen in popularity in recent years and serve as...

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Using Swift to create Web Services on z/OS

by itodorov on July 6, 2018 in Kitura, Sample app, Uncategorized, z Systems

IBM® Toolkit for Swift on z/OS® is a modern toolkit and programming language that focuses on 4 key design principles: safety, performance, modern software design,...

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Type-Safe Authentication using OAuth tokens

by djones6 on June 29, 2018 in Kitura, Swift, Web Framework

Introduction In the 2.4 release of Kitura, we introduced a facility called Type-Safe Middleware, and with it two conforming implementations: Sessions and Credentials. If you...

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Filtering in Swift-Kuery-ORM

by Enrique Lacal on June 8, 2018 in Kitura, Swift, Web Framework

Introduction In Kitura 2.4 we have made enhancements to Codable Query Parameters to support extra filtering. This includes the ability to filter using operators such...

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Create a Kitura project easily with a macOS app

by alexwishart on June 6, 2018 in Kitura, Swift

You spoke, and we listened! We’ve acted on feedback gathered during a number of our recent events and on our Slack channel and made some...

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A new kind of Kitura middleware: type-safe and easy to use

by Andrew Lees on June 5, 2018 in Kitura, Swift, Web Framework

Kitura 2.0 introduced Codable routing, a powerful way to quickly build REST APIs from Swift datatypes. Kitura 2.4 enhances Codable routing by introducing “Type-Safe Middlewares”....

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End-to-end Kitura testing with OpenAPI

by NeilHardman on June 5, 2018 in Kitura, Swift, Web Framework

OpenAPI is the most popular way to document RESTful APIs. It allows developers to define interface specifications in a structured machine readable format. These specifications...

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