Flatbuffers swift roadmap

[mustiikhalil]

This discussion will have all the features and the roadmap for supporting them in the swift implemetation. However, none of these are 100% going to be implemented.

• Storing maps / dictionaries in a FlatBuffer (supported)
• Optional Scalars (supported)
• Verifier [Swift] Verifier implementation #6373 (supported)
• Default vectors and strings [Swift] adds support for default vectors and strings #6461 (supported)
• Allow string unions in swift [Swift] Implements union strings #6589 (supported)
• Final release for gRPC support. (Depends on grpc-swift) (completed)
• xcode 13 documentation Update swift doc xcode 13 #6784 (completed)
• flexbuffers (WIP)
• JSON encoding (without object API) Adds JSON encoding to swift #6874 (completed)
• JSON Decoding (without object API) [Swift] Json decoder #6888 (stale)
• Any New flatbuffers 2.0 features
• Reflection (mini reflection too?) + More of a Hopeful feature
• Moving to this Benchmarks package [Swift] Migrating benchmarks to a newer lib. #8168 (completed)
• Refactor cpp generator for swift

[mustiikhalil]

@liuliu so we can track the issues here

[liuliu]

Thanks!

[mustiikhalil]

if you have anything (official) to add please do make a list and i will add it to the list.