swift-sdk

This release includes major updates to support the latest version of the Discovery service. Note that the Discovery Service's API has been changed in order to improve uniformity between the Watson SDKs.

This release fixes a bug with the updateClassifier method in Visual Recognition.

This release improves support for Swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.3.

This release fixes a few bugs for Linux compatibility:

• Only import CoreML in supported environments
• Include Assistant tests in LinuxMain.swift

It also updates the readme for API changes introduced in v0.22.0.

This release fixes a bug with created and updated dates when using the 2018-02-16 version of Assistant or Conversation.

This update adds Apple Core ML support for Visual Recognition. With Core ML you can download a trained classifier model and use it for offline image classification.

This update adds the Assistant service.

In addition, the following services have been updated to support their latest release. Note that some APIs have changed in order to improve uniformity between the Watson SDKs.

• Conversation
• Language Translator
• Natural Language Classifier
• Natural Language Understanding
• Personality Insights
• Text to Speech
• Tone Analyzer
• Visual Recognition

The following deprecated services have also been removed from the SDK:

• AlchemyDataNewsV1
• AlchemyLanguageV1
• AlchemyVisionV1
• DialogV1
• DocumentConversionV1
• PersonalityInsightsV2
• RelationshipExtractionV1Beta
• RetrieveAndRankV1
• TradeoffAnalyticsV1

• Change uses of NSLocalizedFailureReasonErrorKey to NSLocalizedDescriptionKey for Linux compatibility
• Only lint the Source/Service folder for framework build targets (fixes a bug with carthage --no-use-binaries)
• Fix style errors reported by swiftlint (fixes a bug with carthage --no-use-binaries)
• Improve test infrastructure for simulator and Linux

This release extracts Starscream to be an external dependency. Starscream adds support for WebSockets sessions and is required for use with the Speech to Text service. Because it is an external dependency, developers using the SDK must now link and embed it in their projects. For more information, see Readme: Speech to Text.

This release also includes the following additional changes:

• Deprecate Document Conversion
• Add conditional compilation by platform to improve future compatibility with Linux
• Set client WebSockets timeout to match the Speech to Text service (30s)
• Improve code style using SwiftLint

This release includes the following changes:

• Update Conversation to support 2017-05-26 release with Codable models
• Update Natural Language Understanding to support 2017-02-27 release with Codable models
• Update Visual Recognition to deprecate similarity search operations
• Update Speech to Text to fix a bug with interim speaker labels
• Remove RestKit target (files are now included directly in each service's target)
• Update Package.swift for swift-tools-version:4.0
• Update Starscream dependency
• Update libopus dependency to v1.1.3
• Add extensions to support [String: Any] metadata with Codable models
• Add extensions to support additional properties with Codable models

This release updates the SDK to use Swift 4.

This release includes the following changes:

• Update Conversation to support 2017-05-26 release
• Update Speech to Text to support 2017-07-14 release
• Fix a bug to enable building with Xcode 9
• Other minor bug fixes and documentation updates

Please note that the continuous recognition setting was removed in the 2017-05-22 release of the Watson Speech to Text service. For advice on stopping the microphone, please see this section of the readme.

• Added Opus decoding for TextToSpeech service
• Removed module maps

This release includes support for the following Conversation endpoints:

• Examples
• Counterexamples
• Workspaces
• Intents

This release provides support for Xcode 8.3 and Swift 3.1.

Updating small Discovery service bug that prevented reading credentials.

• Updates for Natural Language Understanding service
• Bug fixes for memory leak in text to speech

This update includes:

• Support for Natural Language Understanding service.
• Fixes for error handling when parsing credential errors.

• Remove CVarArg
• Edit glossary reading error.

Fix Carthage Build and update to Xcode 8.2, Swift 3.0.2