[Question] Application environment handling concern

[minhnimble]

Issue

As per our our API documentation, there are more environments that our API should be able to support, which are Staging and Production, and you only handled the Production environment so far with hard-coded values. I would like to know more on if you have any experiences in handling different environments in a project and if yes, how would you do it in such cases?

survey/Survey/Constants/Constants.swift

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	class Constants {
	static let baseUrl = "https://survey-api.nimblehq.co/api/v1/"
	static let clientId = "ofzl-2h5ympKa0WqqTzqlVJUiRsxmXQmt5tkgrlWnOE"
	static let clientSecret = "lMQb900L-mTeU-FVTCwyhjsfBwRCxwwbCitPob96cuU"
	static let accessToken = "accessToken"
	static let pullToRefreshOffset: Double = -80
	}

[dquangit]

According to my experience, I would use the XCode build configurations, Schemes and the info.plist file to manage the environment.

Following these steps:

1. Create the build configuration for each environment by duplicating the default config and and rename accordingly.
2. Create schemes and assign the corresponding configurations (created in step 1) for them.
3. Finally, reference to the configurations by a custom variable in info.plist.

In the code, I can fetch the configuration by using Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: “<CONFIGURATION_KEY>”).

If you feel that my answer is not clear enough, I can setup a staging environment for this assignment.

[minhnimble]

It is great to receive a quick answer from you. Thank you for your detailed response! 👍

Regarding your provided answer, I have an extra question on your method to use Build Configuration that do you know if creating a build configuration file per each scheme is a must? Or can we skip creating the build configuration for a specific scheme?

[minhnimble]

About your setting a staging environment for this assignment suggestion, this is more like a question task to check your understanding on the given topic, thus it is recommended for you to consider providing an implementation if you still have time after handling other issues 💪. It would be nice to see the actual implementations but it is totally optional. 😁