How to refer to a global type from within a class that has a nested type with the same name?

Question

I have a class declared at the global scope and another class with the same name that is nested within some class.

class Address {
    var someProperty: String?
}

class ThirdPartyAPI {
    class Address {
        var someOtherProperty: String?
        init(fromAddress address: Address) {
            self.someOtherProperty = address.someProperty
        }
    }
}

The question is: how can I refer to a global class instead of the inner one from its initialiser? In the example given I've got an error Value of type 'ThirdPartyAPI.Address' has no member 'someProperty', which means that compiler refers to the inner Address instead of a global one.

Answer 1

Use typealias

class Address {
    var someProperty: String?
}

typealias GlobalAddress = Address

class ThirdPartyAPI {
    class Address {
        var someOtherProperty: String?
        init(fromAddress address: GlobalAddress) {
            self.someOtherProperty = address.someProperty
        }
    }
}