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Re: Question about enums


  • Subject: Re: Question about enums
  • From: Michael de Haan  <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:19:50 -0700

Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll venture down that avenue



> On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:10 PM, iseecolors <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> enum can not have dynamic cases, so adding new cases on the fly based on customer input would not work.
>
> However, a struct could have a dictionary or array property and that property could grow with customers input.
>
> You will still need a way to store the inputs - assuming you want to be able to persist the information.
>
>> On Jul 17, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Michael de Haan  <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if I can get some input as I seemed to have hit a wall in Swift, 2.0
>>
>> My App uses structs and enums to hold the bulk of the data needed for it’s  default values (probably over 95%). So, for example,
>>
>> enum Foo:String {
>>
>>   case Bar = “Bar"
>>   case Etc = “Etc"
>>   case Etc_Etc = “Etc Etc"
>> }
>>
>>
>> As a very small percentage of the app, I want to allow the user to add a custom “raw-Value" of Type Foo. In essence, it would be as if the user had added another case to the enum.
>>
>>
>>
>> let x = Foo(rawValue: “newRawValue”) not unsurprisingly,  returns “nil".
>>
>> I know that I could use Core Data to store the data, but it seems that for so trivial amount of user data,I should be able to do it without resorting to Core Data.
>>
>> Or, I may be approaching it the wrong way entirely.
>>
>> Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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