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

This cannot be done purely in Swift. You can only do this by creating the "class instance by name creator" in Objective C and calling this code from Swift.

For more information you can read this article. http://ijoshsmith.com/2014/06/05/instantiating-classes-by-name-in-swift/

And check out this github repo https://github.com/ijoshsmith/swift-factory