throw an error in Swift, catch in Objective C

Question

Created Nov ’16

Replies 1

Boosts 0

Views 4.8k

Participants 2

@objc(XMPLOurService) 
public class OurService : NSObject {
     public class func isSomething( param: String? )  -> Bool { ...

In a mixed language iOS project this correctly populates the bridging header and can be called from objective C.

But I want to throw an error from this code so I change this to say:

@objc(XMPLOurService)
public class OurService : NSObject {
     public class func isSomething( param: String? ) throws -> Bool { ...

And now the function disappears from the bridging header and can't be called from objective C.

What am I doing wrong?

Boost

Answer 1

OOPer OP

Nov ’16

Accepted Answer

When Swift exports throws-function to Ojective-C, it does two things:

Add an extra parameter taking a nullable pointer to `NSError*`.
Change the return type to Optional, if the return type is Void, it is chnaged to `BOOL`.

So, in your case, Swift tries to convert the return type to something like `bool?`, but unfortunately, Optional-primitive types cannot be represented in Objective-C.

Thus, Swift gives up exporting the method to Objecive-C.

You can try something like this:

    public class func isSomethingOther( param: String? ) throws {
        //...
    }

or like this:

    public class func isSomethingAnother( param: String? ) throws -> NSNumber {
        //...
        return true as NSNumber
    }

1