Provincial

Provincial is a small library to quickly get a list of states or provinces from various countries.

Goal

Ultimately, the goal of Provincial was to provide a quick way to get a list of US states and Canadian provinces. Instead of hardcoding a list of strings in an array, this library can provide a list of State objects that give basic information about each.

Requirements

None.

Installation

Provincial is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "Provincial"

Usage

At the top of your .swift file:

import Provincial

To get a list of all US states:

let states = Provincial.states(in: .usa)

This returns a list of PoliticalEntity objects representing states.

The PoliticalEntity protocol requires each to provide a State computed property. This State struct includes the name and abbreviation of each state. Thus, to print the name of all 50 US States, you could write:

for state in states {
  print(state.info.name)
}

States are listed by means of an enum. This can allow you to either check for specifics states while looping through a set, or to get individual information for a particular state.

let arizona = USState.arizona
print(arizona.name)
print(arizona.abbreviation)

It's also possible to filter or sort the array using Swift's built in .filter and .sorted methods.

let newestStates = states.sorted { $0.info.date > $1.info.date }

Planned Features and Improvements

• All North American states and provinces (currently only US and Canada)
• Convenience methods for sorting results
• Better storage of data

Feature suggestions and pull requests are welcome!

Author

Josh Hrach, josh.hrach@gmail.com

License

Provincial is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.