Secretary

Tool that makes easy to store API keys outside of repository.

Usage

Secretary </path/to/secrets.plist> </path/to/secrets.swift>

It takes two arguments:

1. Path to plist file, containing the real secrets.

   Secrets.plist

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
       <key>keyOne</key>
       <string>ValueOne</string>
       <key>keyTwo</key>
       <string>ValueTwo</string>
       <key>keyThree</key>
       <string>ValueThree</string>
   </dict>
   </plist>

2. Path to swift file with empty enum Secrets.

   Secrets.swift

   enum Secrets {
   
       static let keyOne = "<<changeme>>"
   }

The tool changes the values of variables, that names found in plist as keys, to corresponding values.

So using with the examples above, after the tool will finish, the file Secrets.swift will look like this:

enum Secrets {

    static let keyOne = "ValueOne"
    static let keyTwo = "ValueTwo"
    static let keyThree = "ValueThree"
}

Usage With Xcode

1. Create the file that contains only namespace enum Secrets with the static variables representing the secrets, as in the example above.

2. Create the plist file with secrets and exclude it from version control system.

3. Add run script build phase prior to Compile Sources phase:

   

   With script like this:

       ~/bin/Secretary $SRCROOT/Secrets.plist $SRCROOT/MyProject/Secrets.swift

4. Consider to marking your Secrets.swift file with git update-index --assume-unchanged command, as the real secrets will be added in it on build.

Build/Install

You should use make install command to build and install this tool.

For example, to install it to default location at /usr/local/bin just run:

$ make install

You can specify the installation path by setting the variable INSTALLPATH=~/bin/ like this:

$ make install INSTALLPATH=\~/bin/

TODO

• Support secrets in formats:
  • plist
  • json
  • yaml
• Add tests.
• Add Secrets.swift generation from scratch.