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Objective-C enums conform to RawRepresentable

Any exprerience on this I have for example the following enum written in objc

typedef enum {
  Type1,
  Type2
} Type;

extension Type: RawRepresentable {
    typealias RawValue = UInt32
}

compiler crashes when I'm trying to conform to RawRepresentable.The only thing that I can imaging is that RawRepresentable works only with swift enums.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • Forget about using raw C enum and use the Objective-C NS_ENUM macro:

    typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, MyEnumType) {
    Type1,
    Type2
};

    Then in Swift the enum will be already RawRepresentable. You cannot add that conformance this way. Well, you probably could, but you will have to also declare init?(rawValue:) and var rawValue.