[swift-users] So how do you implement a NSTextStorage subclass in Swift?

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

This seems like a bug (missing feature?) in how the API is imported for
Swift. You might consider filing a Radar.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:12 PM Michel Fortin via swift-users <
swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> The `string` property of `NSTextStorage` is of type `String`, but the
> contract it must implement is that it should return the backing store of
> the attributed string (the underlying `NSMutableString` used as the backing
> store). It seems to me that this makes it impossible to implement correctly
> a subclass of `NSTextStorage` in Swift, because Swift automatically wraps
> the `NSString` into a `String` and the underlying mutable storage is not
> passed around.
>
> Here's the documentation for that method:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsattributedstring/1412616-string
>
> In case the contract isn't clear from the documentation (it wasn't for
> me), I got a confirmation as a response in radar 30314719:
> > It’s returning a copy of the backing store, but the contract is actually
> returning the backing store string. The copy storage declaration in the
> property spec is only used for setter implementation.
>
> So looks like this is impossible to model correctly in Swift due to the
> automatic bridging to `String`. Some APIs in AppKit expect the `NSString`
> they receive to mutate when mutating the text storage (touch bar
> suggestions in `NSTextView`) and will do bad things this isn't the case.
>
> Obviously, I can work around this by writing some Objective-C code, but
> it'd be better if I could avoid splitting the class implementation between
> two languages. There's another way using swizzling to map the Objective-C
> method to a Swift implementation of the same method that has the correct
> signature, and that's probably what I'll end up doing unless a better
> solution can be pointed out to me.
>
>
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> Michel Fortin
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