How to get the name of enumeration value in Swift?

Question

If I have an enumeration with raw Integer values:

enum City: Int {
  case Melbourne = 1, Chelyabinsk, Bursa
}

let city = City.Melbourne
         


        

Answer 1

The String(describing:) initializer can be used to return the case label name even for enums with non-String rawValues:

enum Numbers: Int {
    case one = 1
    case two = 2
}

let one = String(describing: Numbers.one) // "one"
let two = String(describing: Numbers.two) // "two"

Note that this does not work if the enum uses the @objc modifier:

https://forums.swift.org/t/why-is-an-enum-returning-enumname-rather-than-caselabel-for-string-describing/27327

Generated Swift interfaces for Objective-C types sometimes do not include the @objc modifier. Those Enums are nevertheless defined in Objective-C, and thus do not work like above.