[swift-dev] [SourceKit] NSRange, Swift.String, and NSString

[Tyler Stromberg]

We started off using those convenience APIs from SourceKitten (huge thanks for SourceKitten, BTW) but ended up moving to our own solution — for this issue due to some performance issues, particularly in large files, and for interfacing with SourceKit in general because we wanted a little more control over request/response handling.

> On Mar 24, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Jean-Pierre Simard <jp at jpsim.com> wrote:
> 
> I ended up writing some convenience APIs to perform these conversions along with many other useful SourceKit<->Cocoa conversions like line+column, UTF-8, UTF-16 and String.Index in SourceKitten. It's MIT-licensed so feel free to grab the String extensions from the project yourself: https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten/blob/master/Source/SourceKittenFramework/String+SourceKitten.swift
> 
> That being said, you might have an easier time working with SourceKitten than with with SourceKit directly, since it does a whole lot more, like dynamically resolving+loading which SourceKit to use, caching expensive operations, easier multi-threaded access, generating documentation, etc.
> 
>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 at 10:59 Tyler Stromberg via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>> I'm currently working on integrating SourceKit with a macOS application. AppKit APIs (e.g. NSAttributedString, NSLayoutManager, etc) deal in terms of NSRange (UTF-16 code units?). SourceKit, however, deals in terms of integer offsets and lengths (UTF-8 code units?). Is there a more efficient or easier way to convert back and forth between the two other than doing the index(_:offsetBy:) -> samePosition(in:) dance?
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