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dext/SalesforceServiceSDK-iOS 238.0.0
Temporary store for Salesforce Service SDK unpackaged frameworks for iOS until Salesforce get their SPM support going
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Temporary home of SPM manifest and repackaged versions of Salesforce Service SDK frameworks for iOS

While Salesforce are retooling their CI/CD to produce SPM compatible versions of their iOS frameworks, we will try to maintain a compatible setup ourselves.

This repo contains a SPM Package.swift manifest and repackaged versions of the frameworks. They are downloaded from the download link on the official page as .zip archive (e.g. for the first version we added 238.0.0 https://dfc-data-production.s3.amazonaws.com/files/service_sdk_ios/238.0.0/ServiceSDK-238.0.0.zip).

Problems around wrapping current ServiceSDK frameworks as SPM binary targets

In general, a framework should easily be wrapped as a SPM binary target, however ServiceSDK frameworks are umbrella frameworks that have dependency to other internal frameworks, which is discouraged by Apple and lead to inability to submit apps to App Store Connect.

For example, if we pack the frameworks directly as binary targets, we get the following errors:

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The first error is caused by the prepare-framework binary being included in the framework itself, because this binary is actually a perl script.

Just removing the prepare-framework fixes the first error.

The second error, however is caused because there are subframeworks referenced within the ubmrella frameworks, for example

ServiceCore.framework has a subfolder Frameworks where there is a ServiceCommon.framework subframework dependency.

The official SalesForce documentation, says that we should run the prepare-framework script after Embedding the frameworks in order to solve that problem.

What this script does it to

  • strip any unsupported architectures from the binary - since these are xcframeworks, there is no issue with that
  • remove itself - fixing the first issue
  • remove Frameworks subfolder from each framework - fixing the second issue
  • code sign the farmeworks, if nececary - they are actually codesigned automatically, so this is unececary step, because it produced a warning

However running that script as last run script build phase does not work, because when using SPM binary targets, the embed build phase is implicit and runs after all other xcode build pahses, which leads to inability to run the script at the right time.

Well, the solution might sounds easy - just remove the prepare-framework script and the Frameworks folder from each framework in advance, directly in the package.

Actually this is the right direction, however it is causing another issue. Because the subframework headers were removed, when compiling your app, it gets a build error that these headers are missing.

Fortunately, when declaring target dependencies in SPM, all dependent submodules are automatically exposed, we can create wrapper targets for each framework and include all the nececary headers.

Even better, we can directly mimic the umbrella frameowork structure by including the Headers, Frameworks folders and the module.modulemap file.

Then we can remove the Frameworks folder from the actual xcframework for ios-arm64 architecture, zip it and use it as binary dependency.

Updating the frameworks in the package

Now, each time there is a new version of ServiceSDK, we have to solve the above problems. This can be done manually or automatically (see below for instructions).

Manual update instructions

  1. Download the latest version of the SDK and unarchive it.
  2. For ServiceCore.xcframework - remove the prepare-framework script
  3. For ServiceCases.xcframework - remove the #import <CaseCore/CaseCore.h> from ios-arm64/ServiceCases.framework/Frameworks/CaseUI.framework/Headers/SCCaseInterface+CaseUI.h header
  4. For ServiceKnowledge.xcframework - change the #import <ServiceCore/ServiceCore.h> to @import ServiceCore; in the ios-arm64/ServiceKnowledge.framework/Frameworks/KnowledgeCore.framework/Headers/SCAppearanceConfiguration+Knowledge.h header
  5. For each xcframework:
  • create a wrapper folder in the package, eg for ServiceCore.xcframework, create ServiceCoreWrapper.
  • in the wrapper folder:
    • create an empty objective-c file, eg. placeholder.m
    • create an include folder
  • move the Frameworks folder for ios-arm64 architecture to the include folder, eg. ServiceCore.xcframework/ios-arm64/ServiceCore.framework/Frameworks -> ServiceCoreWrapper/include/Frameworks
  • copy the Headers folder to include folder
  • copy the Modules/module.modulemap file to include folder
  1. Archive the modified xcframeworks and put them in the Versions folder
  2. In the Package.swift
  • declare a binary target for each xcframework archive
  • declare a target for each wrapper target, that depends on the respective binary target
  • add a target dependency to ServiceSDK-iOS for each wrapper target

Automatic update instructions

Run update_frameworks.sh with a version argument, eg. ./update_frameworks.sh 238.0.0.

This will perform the steps described above by generating the wrappers and the package description.

Notes

Don't forget to test the package to make sure everything is working correcty, because there could be new individual cases, that has to be handled, like the need to modify another header's import.

At the end, when everytihng works correctly, commit, push and tag the updates.

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