[swift-users] Reflection in Swift 3?

[Rick Mann]

> On Nov 12, 2016, at 22:47 , David Sweeris <davesweeris at mac.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 13, 2016, at 00:38, Rick Mann via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> So, it seems there's still no way to do something like instantiate a class given only its name (as a String)?
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>> In my situation, I have a number of subclasses (or protocol implementations), which parallel some other class hierarchy. I need to dynamically create one based on the name of another. I don't want the latter classes to "know" anything about the former.
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> Not that I know of... If this is all your code, can you fake it by switching over the type's name?

Yeah, it just happens in a few places, would be nice to write the code once and then just ensure classes exist. I know I could do it subclassing NSObject, but Swift really ought to have proper reflection.


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Rick Mann
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