Using XCode 10.1 / Swift 4.2.
I'm trying to assign an object that conforms to a Swift protocol to an Objective-C pointer. The following code is a minimal example that compiles and works as expected, but it gives me the following warnings:
If assigning to a local variable: Incompatible pointer types initializing 'NSObject<Animal> *__strong' with an expression of type 'id<Animal> _Nullable'
If assigning to a stored property:
Incompatible pointer types assigning to 'NSObject<Animal> *' from 'id<Animal> _Nullable'
Any idea on how to address that warning without just silencing it?
Swift code:
@objc protocol Animal {
var name: String { get }
}
@objc class Pig: NSObject, Animal {
var name: String = "pig"
}
@objc class Cow: NSObject, Animal {
var name: String = "cow"
}
@objc class Farm: NSObject {
static func getAnimal(name: String) -> Animal? {
// return some animal or nil
}
}
Objective-C code:
// This code returns a valid pointer to a Pig object
// that is usable in objective-c, but it also triggers
// the warning described above
NSObject<Animal>* animal = [Farm getAnimalWithName:@"pig"];
Specify that every Animal
implementer also implements NSObject
's interface: @objc protocol Animal : NSObjectProtocol
You could also change the type of the variable in ObjC to id<Animal>
.