Calling NSStringFromClass on a Swift Class in Objective-C returns module mangled name

Question

I am aware of this question regarding how we can get a readable class name of an objective-c class in Swift.

What I want to achieve is getting the readable class name of

Answer 1

The reason you get "Bar.Foo" is because swift is a namespace language. I'm assuming the application you were running this in was named Bar. Hence you may get your class name using the following:

let nameSpaceClassName = NSStringFromClass(Foo)
let className = nameSpaceClassName.componentsSeparatedByString(".").last! as String

Answer 2

Working solution for this in Swift 2.1 is

String(MyClass)

Answer 3

In objective-c your best option is:

NSString *yourCellName = NSStringFromClass([yourCell class]).pathExtension;

Answer 4

On the latest Swift below worked for me:

NSStringFromClass(type(of: yourClass!.self))

Answer 5

Try it with Swift 2.0:

self.description().componentsSeparatedByString(".").last!

Answer 6

Swift 5.1 solution for NSStringFromClass

If you want the string description of a class name (say CustomTableViewCell) use:

String(describing: CustomTableViewCell.self)