Xcode should offer a fixit when you attempt to use a Swift-only member from Objective-C

Originator:heath.borders
Number:rdar://41651051 Date Originated:June 29 2018
Status: Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:
Classification: Reproducible:
 
When I forget to annotate a tag a member of a Swift class (or the whole Swift class itself) with @objc, but then I use the member (or the whole Swift class itself) from Objective-C, Xcode only says the member or class doesn't exist. However, Xcode should provide a better suggestion and offer a fixit to tag the related member or class with @objc.

Comments

My response to them

That's fine, but if there is no legal Objective-C selector, and you attempt to use a Swift selector, Xcode could at least emit a warning about it.

By heath.borders at July 9, 2018, 2:46 p.m. (reply...)

Apple responded

Engineering has provided the following information regarding this issue:

This is deliberately not implemented. Since Objective-C methods are identified by class and selector, noting that a particular selector comes from Swift could interfere with an Objective-C category elsewhere in the project that tried to provide that selector. It is unusual but permitted for Swift and Objective-C to define methods that would have the same selector, but to then not expose the Swift method to the Objective-C runtime.

By heath.borders at July 9, 2018, 2:45 p.m. (reply...)

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