The RepositoryBrowser project

The client is a Master Detail application called RepositoryBrowser. This sets up a template that can be used on a large device with a split view controller, or a navigator view controller on a small device. In addition, actions to add entries are created.

To build the APIs necessary to display content, several utility classes are needed:

• The URITemplate class processes URI templates with a set of key/value pairs

• The Threads class allows functions to be run in the background or in the main thread

• The NSURLExtensions class provides easy parsing JSON objects from a URL

• The DictionaryExtensions class provides a means of creating a Swift dictionary from a JSON object

• The GitHubAPI class provides access to the GitHub remote API

URI templates

URI templates are defined in RFC 6570 at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570. They can be used to replace sequences of text surrounded by {} in a URI. Although GitHub's API uses optional values {?...}, the example client presented in...