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Re: Question about enums


  • Subject: Re: Question about enums
  • From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:33:29 -0500

How about using a Custom option with an associated String value?

enum Foo:String {

    case Bar = “Bar"
    case Etc = “Etc"
    case Etc_Etc = “Etc Etc"
    case Custom(String)
 }


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Michael de Haan  <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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