Create instance of class known at runtime in Swift

Question

A picture is worth a thousand words, how to rewrite this code from Objective-C to Swift?

- (id) instanceOfClass: (Class) class withInitializer: (SEL) initializer         


        

Answer 1

If you can make your classes subclasses of a common superclass you can do this:

class C {
  var typ:String
  init() {
    self.typ = "C"
  }
  class func newInst() -> C {
    return C()
  }
}

class C1 : C {
  override init() {
    super.init()
    self.typ = "C1"
  }
  override class func newInst() -> C1 {
    return C1()
  }
}

class C2 : C {
  override init() {
    super.init()
    self.typ = "C2"
  }
  override class func newInst() -> C2 {
    return C2()
  }
}

var CL:C.Type = C1.self
CL = C2.self
var inst = CL.newInst()

inst.typ

If not then you can use a closure or block to create the instance and place those in a dictionary by name.