In Swift, does resetting the property inside didSet trigger another didSet?

Question

I'm testing this and it appears that if you change the value within didSet, you do not get another call to didSet.

var x: Int = 0 {
    didSet {
        if x == 9 { x = 10 }
    }
}

Can I rely on this? Is it documented somewhere? I don't see it in the Swift Programming Language document.

Answer 1

I also thought, that this is not possible (maybe it wasn't in Swift 2), but I tested it and found an example where Apple uses this. (At "Querying and Setting Type Properties")

struct AudioChannel {
    static let thresholdLevel = 10
    static var maxInputLevelForAllChannels = 0
    var currentLevel: Int = 0 {
        didSet {
            if currentLevel > AudioChannel.thresholdLevel {
                // cap the new audio level to the threshold level
                currentLevel = AudioChannel.thresholdLevel
            }
            if currentLevel > AudioChannel.maxInputLevelForAllChannels {
                // store this as the new overall maximum input level
                AudioChannel.maxInputLevelForAllChannels = currentLevel
            }
        }
    }
}

And below this piece of code, there is the following note:

In the first of these two checks, the didSet observer sets currentLevel to a different value. This does not, however, cause the observer to be called again.