[swift-evolution] SE-0064 Property Selectors and KVO

[David Hart]

#selector(Thing.thingWatched) won't work because it expects a function. As thingWatched is a property, it doesn't know if you want to reference the getter or setter. SE-0064 lets you reference those explicitly. In this case, you could write NSStringFromSelector(#selector(getter: Thing.thingWatched)), which is far from elegant. SE-0062 is there to fix that: #keyPath(Thing.thingWatched) will return the correct string.

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> On 04 Jun 2016, at 16:18, Rob Napier <robnapier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently KVO requires hard-coding strings to check the keypath. Does SE-0064 cover returning a string when a string is required? For example:
> 
> override func observeValueForKeyPath(keyPath: String?, 
>                                      ofObject object: AnyObject?, 
>                                      change: [String : AnyObject]?,
>                                      context: UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) {
>     if let changingThing = object as? Thing, 
>            keyPath = keyPath where changingThing === thing {
> 
>         switch keyPath {
>         case "thingWatched": ...
> 
> I'd like to replace that last line with:
> 
>         case #selector(Thing.thingWatched):
> 
> Or something similarly non-stringy.
> 
> Alternately, this comes back to your "Referencing Objective-C key-paths" proposal, but I'm wondering if 0064 already covers this case.
> 
> -Rob
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