I'm facing some difficulties in choosing the best CouchDB/PouchDB iOS SDK. We have a CouchDB server that can not be upgraded or modified at the moment. This Is a problem for Couchbase Lit SDK last relaese because it uses Sync Gateway as its own server (no longer compatible with CouchDB).
So I studied a bit of CDTDatastore, the Cloudant SDK. Unfortunately is quite 'obsolete' at code level, in the sense that there are more than 100 warnings that I really don't like because are almost referring to object block capture (strong reference cycle) and deallocation of objects in the finalize responder thet is deprecated since years :-)
So I though, just because I'm nearly mad, to try to implement myself the replication protocol, but really, I know it is quite hard, just because, if I correctly understood, I need to implement a CouchDB instance on the iOS device.
So I have two related questions:
- Can you suggest me a SDK/Framework/Library to use to simply handling data locally and than manage replication into a CouchDB server? I'd like to be able to choose if use Objective-C or Swift if it is possible;
- Is there a way to create a very simple class that implement the replication protocol using only HTTP requests? Or implementing a CouchDB instance is a must?
So... shortly speaking... what is your preferred solution in situations like this?
