[swift-users] Customizing my custom type's appearance in the debugger

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Tim Vermeulen via swift-users
<swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> I’ve implemented a linked list. Now I’d like to be able to view the elements of a linked list in the debugger just like with an array. In the debugger, an array is represented like this:
>
> [0] = the first element
> [1] = the second element
> etc
>
> I wonder if I can do the same for my linked list. I already implemented CustomReflectable, so the code `dump(myLinkedList)` shows this in the console:
>
> 3 elements
>   - first element
>   - second elements
>   - third element
>
> I thought this would also change the appearance of my linked list in the debugger, but unfortunately it’s unchanged. Is there a way to do what I’m trying to do?

Try setting "displayStyle: .collection" when you call the Mirror initializer.

Dmitri

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