> On Dec 2, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Rick Aurbach via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to do the following in Swift 3.x? (I’ll
> describe the issue abstractly first, then give the use-case.)
>
> Consider two modules: A and B. A could be either the main module of an
> application or an embedded framework. B is a different embedded framework.
>
> Now A contains an public extension of class X which contains a function f().
> Inside B, there is a reference to X.f(). Now what I want to do in f() is to
> access information (a module name or bundle name or bundle ID or something)
> that allows me to construct a Bundle object referring to B, without f()
> having any external knowledge of the organization of the application.
>
> The use-case I’m thinking about is a localization extension of String that
> works in a multi-framework application architecture without requiring the
> caller to specify the name of the framework and/or module.
>
> I.e., I want to write
>
> extension String {
> func locate() -> String {…}
> }
>
> and put this extension into framework “A”. Then, from framework “B”, I want
> to use this function from within a function f() and [somehow] figure out from
> the runtime what the bundle of “B” is, so that I can use it’s localized
> strings file.
>
> I understand that from within the locate() method, I can use #function and
> from it, parse out the module name of “A” and then use the correspondence
> between module names and framework names to figure out the bundle of “A”. BUT
> what I want here is the bundle resource for “B”, not “A”.
You should be able to use a trick similar to the one that assert() uses to
collect file and line numbers:
func locate(caller: StaticString = #function) {
// `caller` is the caller's #function
}
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Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler
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