[swift-corelibs-dev] NSCoding methods

[Philippe Hausler]

Likely we will have to change that signature to instead of being NSSet and Set<NSObject> respectively to be more compatible; however this will be an API change. It might be good to mock up a swift translation layer for these APIs to simulate what it would be like on Darwin if we altered these to be renamed in swift and presented with a better interface via the SDK overlays. Note: this will have to go through our evolution proposal system and be weighed in by the component owners of NSKeyedArchiver and the API teams associated with that to make such a change.

In my opinion since AnyClass should be unique it by nature should be Hashable - however I am not certain we can actually do that without language changes.

Perhaps for the time being we could alter the signatures to be:

public func decodeObjectOfClasses(classes: [AnyClass], forKey key: String) -> AnyObject?

public var allowedClasses: [AnyClass]?


> On Dec 25, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Luke Howard via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Looking at decodeObjectOfClasses/allowedClasses – what is the element type in the set of allowed classes? It seems like it should be AnyClass but that can’t be added to a Set because it doesn’t implement Hashable (nor to an NSSet because the initialiser unconditionally casts to NSObject).
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> — Luke
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