I had filed a related bug https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2514 Add a "hex dump" method to `Data`
as a result of the discussion starting at https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-users/Week-of-Mon-20160822/003035.html Martin > On 23 Sep 2016, at 03:47, Joe Groff via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> > wrote: > > >> On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Shawn Erickson via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> >> In general you shouldn't depend on what description returns for classes, >> etc. outside of your control unless it is documented (e.g. part of the API >> contract). If you want a specific output you should code up something to >> format the output as you need. > > This is good advice, but the printing behavior of Data nonetheless strikes me > as a bug. NSData's printing behavior seems much more useful than Data's. If > either of you have a moment, would you be able to file a bug about this? > > -Joe > >> -Shawn >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:33 PM Robert Nikander via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I’ve run into a problem when updating to new Swift in Xcode 8. There was >> some NSData in a string like this: >> >> “ … \(data) … “ >> >> It changed to type `Data`, and the string went from hexadecimal bytes to >> writing “20 bytes”. I’m doing a quick bug fix app release now. I can’t >> remember if Xcode auto converted this for me. I thought it did. ? Either >> way… seems like they should behave the same here, no? >> >> Rob >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > > _______________________________________________ > swift-users mailing list > swift-users@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
