[swift-users] No hex dump anymore in Data description

Martin R martinr448 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 01:45:01 CDT 2016


Is it intentional that the description method of Data returns only the number of bytes, but not a hex dump of the contents (as NSData did)? 

    let data = Data(bytes: [1, 2, 3])
    print(data) // 3 bytes
    print(data.debugDescription) // 3 bytes

Of course I can bridge back to NSData:
    
    print(data as NSData) // <010203>

But other collection types (Array, Dictionary, Set) print all their elements, regardless of the size of the collection.

For debugging purposes, the "old behavior" of returning a hex dump would be useful.

Martin



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