A simple class that shows you how to use a custom class for NSItemProvider used for drag/drop in a collection view This repo has two classes namely MenuItemModel and Encodable+Additions You can consider this as a utility repo / one stop solution instead of breaking your head searching for the solution.

• its a custom class , can contain any types of dicts,structs, enums provided they conform to Codable.
• you use it as follows :

let itemProvider = NSItemProvider(object:reqdItem)

where reqdItem is an instance of MenuItemModel

is an extension that can be used to convert a dict to a Codable type or decode a Codable type into a dict.

For example If menuItemModel is an instance of MenuItemModel then

menuItemModel.dictionary() 

would give you a dictionary of type -> [AnyHashable:Any]?

The other way is if you have a dictionary and a codable type , you can initialize it like so :

MenuItemModel(dict:[AnyHashable:Any])

I agree this is a very simple repo but it proved to be very useful to me for drag/drop collection view implementation.