Open tobihagemann opened 4 months ago
Hi @tobihagemann,
Absolutely, I encourage you to contribute to the project 💯 As you've probably noticed, we strive to avoid introducing breaking changes in the project. Additionally, it's a requirement for incoming changes to have test coverage.
But before you embark on that journey, I'll just mention that we're currently putting a lot of effort into the new box-swift-sdk-gen🚀, which should be officially released this year. It's entirely generated using our tool, which creates the SDKs based on our public API. As of now, the project is fully functional, but we're constantly developing it, which may result in breaking changes, though they shouldn't be significant.
In the new SDK, when creating a BoxClient, you can pass a NetworkSession
, which accepts the parameter URLSessionConfiguration
that you mentioned here. You can find more information at this link.
Oh, we didn't know about this new SDK. 😮 And indeed, it would probably already solve our issue if you're able to pass a URLSessionConfiguration
. I guess, we'll take a look at it. Will there be a new tag in the near future, or will it stay at v0.1.0
for a while? Or what would you recommend for us?
Hi @tobihagemann,
I've just released a new version v0.2.0
, which includes our latest changes, so I recommend using it :)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are unable to configure the
URLSession
beyond the default settings, see: https://github.com/box/box-ios-sdk/blob/a395222866dd441f474f25fbe15837ae37662e68/Sources/Network/BoxNetworkAgent.swift#L61This restricts our ability to create background
URLSession
s with custom configurations, particularly concerning setting session identifiers and shared container identifiers.Describe the solution you'd like
We propose updating the
BoxNetworkAgent
to create theURLSession
based on some sort of configuration. One way could be to extend theBoxSDKConfiguration
to accept aURLSessionConfiguration
.Describe alternatives you've considered
There isn't really an alternative. Since we're implementing a File Provider extension, we require the
URLSession
s to be configured as a background session.Additional context
We are willing to contribute to implementing this feature and are open to creating a pull request. However, we would appreciate guidance from you to ensure the feature aligns with your best practices for your library.