Overriding NS*** methods in Swift

Question

To provide a fallback language for NSLocalizedString, I\'m using this #undef and #define in Objective-C:

#undef NSLoca         


        

Answer 1

You will have to do a global function... the other options will cause all sort of problems, such as retrain cycles, or classes classes witch do not inherit from NSObject(that is only subset of the problems) - this will not work at all. yes global function usually are big no! but that is the only way to "override" global function. , Here is a code I use in production, we had few thousands of string, at some point we had to make our app dynamically localized - and this is what we did.

// Global functions for lagacy code
func NSLocalizedString(_ key: String, comment: String) -> String {
    return key.localized()
}

func NSLocalizedStringInTable(key: String, tableName: String ) -> String {
    return key.localized(using: tableName)
}