Catching NSException in Swift

Question

The following code in Swift raises NSInvalidArgumentException exception:

task = NSTask()
task.launchPath = "/SomeWrongPath"
task.launch()

How can I catch the exception? As I understand, try/catch in Swift is for errors thrown within Swift, not for NSExceptions raised from objects like NSTask (which I guess is written in ObjC). I'm new to Swift so may be I'm missing something obvious...

Edit: here's a radar for the bug (specifically for NSTask): openradar.appspot.com/22837476

Answer 1

Here is some code, that converts NSExceptions to Swift 2 errors.

Now you can use

do {
    try ObjC.catchException {

       /* calls that might throw an NSException */
    }
}
catch {
    print("An error ocurred: \(error)")
}

ObjC.h:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface ObjC : NSObject

+ (BOOL)catchException:(void(^)(void))tryBlock error:(__autoreleasing NSError **)error;

@end

ObjC.m

#import "ObjC.h"

@implementation ObjC 

+ (BOOL)catchException:(void(^)(void))tryBlock error:(__autoreleasing NSError **)error {
    @try {
        tryBlock();
        return YES;
    }
    @catch (NSException *exception) {
        *error = [[NSError alloc] initWithDomain:exception.name code:0 userInfo:exception.userInfo];
        return NO;
    }
}

@end

Don't forget to add this to your "*-Bridging-Header.h":

#import "ObjC.h"