Swift equivalent to Objective-C FourCharCode single quote literals (e.g. 'TEXT')

Question

I am trying replicate some Objective C cocoa in Swift. All is good until I come across the following:

// Set a new type and creator:
unsigned long type = \'TEXT\         


        

Answer 1

Note: this should work but doesn't actually work - must be a bug. I am leaving this here to document that it doesn't work, may work in the future, but for time being best to use the accepted answer.

I found the following typealiases from the Swift API:

typealias FourCharCode = UInt32
typealias OSType = FourCharCode

And the following functions:

func NSFileTypeForHFSTypeCode(hfsFileTypeCode: OSType) -> String!
func NSHFSTypeCodeFromFileType(fileTypeString: String!) -> OSType

This should allow me to create the equivalent code:

let type : UInt32 = UInt32(NSHFSTypeCodeFromFileType("TEXT"))
let creator : UInt32 = UInt32(NSHFSTypeCodeFromFileType("pdos"))

WARNING: But it doesn't work on Xcode 7.0 beta (7A121l)