Example of structure comparison in Swift

StructCompareUsingMirror.swift

import Foundation

protocol KeyPathListable {
    var allKeyPaths: [String: PartialKeyPath<Self>] { get }
    var keyPathsList: [PartialKeyPath<Self>] { get }
}

extension KeyPathListable {
    private subscript(checkedMirrorDescendant key: String) -> Any {
        Mirror(reflecting: self).descendant(key)!
    }
    
    var keyPathsList: [PartialKeyPath<Self>] {
        var list = [PartialKeyPath<Self>]()
        let mirror = Mirror(reflecting: self)
        for case (let key?, _) in mirror.children {
            list.append(\Self.[checkedMirrorDescendant: key] as PartialKeyPath)
        }
        return list
    }

    var allKeyPaths: [String: PartialKeyPath<Self>] {
        var membersTokeyPaths = [String: PartialKeyPath<Self>]()
        let mirror = Mirror(reflecting: self)
        for case (let key?, _) in mirror.children {
            membersTokeyPaths[key] = \Self.[checkedMirrorDescendant: key] as PartialKeyPath
        }
        return membersTokeyPaths
    }
}


struct DataSubstruct: Hashable, KeyPathListable {
    let foo: String
    let num: Double
}

struct DataStruct: Hashable, KeyPathListable {
    let num: Int
    let str: String
    let arrOfStrings: [String]
    let substruct: DataSubstruct
    let arrOfSubstructs: [DataSubstruct]
}

extension Hashable where Self: KeyPathListable {
    // WARNING: Non-transitive!
    func diff(against updated: Self) -> [PartialKeyPath<Self>: AnyHashable] {
        guard self.keyPathsList.elementsEqual(updated.keyPathsList) else {
            fatalError("Not implemented!")
        }
        var diff = [PartialKeyPath<Self>: AnyHashable]()
        dump(Self.self)
        for (_, kp) in self.allKeyPaths {
            if
                let currentValue = self[keyPath: kp] as? AnyHashable,
                let updatedValue = updated[keyPath: kp] as? AnyHashable
            {
                if currentValue != updatedValue {
                    diff[kp] = updatedValue
                }
            }
        }
        return diff
    }
    
    static func == (lhs: Self, rhs: Self) -> Bool {
        guard lhs.keyPathsList.elementsEqual(rhs.keyPathsList) else {
            fatalError("Not implemented!")
        }
        for kp in lhs.keyPathsList {
            guard let lhsValue = lhs[keyPath: kp] as? AnyHashable,
                  let rhsValue = rhs[keyPath: kp] as? AnyHashable,
                  lhsValue == rhsValue
            else {
                return false
            }
        }
        return true
    }

    func hash(into hasher: inout Hasher) {
        for kp in keyPathsList {
            guard let value = self[keyPath: kp] as? AnyHashable else {
                continue
            }
            value.hash(into: &hasher)
        }
    }
}

let a = DataStruct(
    num: 1,
    str: "One",
    arrOfStrings: ["foo", "bar", "baz"],
    substruct: DataSubstruct(foo: "Foo", num: 1),
    arrOfSubstructs: [
        DataSubstruct(foo: "Bar", num: 1.0),
        DataSubstruct(foo: "Baz", num: 2.0)
    ]
)

let b = DataStruct(
    num: 2,
    str: "Two",
    arrOfStrings: ["foo", "bar", "baz"],
    substruct: DataSubstruct(foo: "Foo", num: 1),
    arrOfSubstructs: [
        DataSubstruct(foo: "Bar", num: 1.0),
        DataSubstruct(foo: "Quix", num: 2.0)
    ]
)

let difference = a.diff(against: b)

difference.keys.forEach {
    print(\DataStruct.num == $0)
    print(a[keyPath: $0], "->", b[keyPath: $0])
}