<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I'm having an issue with an NSDictionary that is passing through Swift code and back to Objective-C losing access to a method implemented by a category on NSDictionary. There is clearly some subtlety about bridged dictionaries that I'm missing, and I'd appreciate any clarification that the list can provide.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Specifically: I have a Swift 3 application that uses some legacy Objective-C classes. One of these classes relies on a category on NSDictionary that implements a method called `-boolValueForKey:`. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">In the main application, the Swift code calls a method on a remote object proxy that returns an NSDictionary, which get bridged back to a Swift dictionary (`[AnyHashable: Any]`). This bridged dictionary is passed to a method on the legacy Objective-C class that calls the `-boolValueForKey:` method from the category. At this point, a runtime exception occurs that says the dictionary object (which at this point is a `_SwiftDeferredNSDictionary`, according to the debugger) doesn’t recognize the selector `-boolValueForKey:`.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I can work around the issue in my code by modifying the legacy Objective-C class and inlining the implementation of `-boolValueForKey:` — but is there a better general approach?</p><div><br></div><div>Thanks — Russell</div><div><br></div></div>