Toll-free bridging and pointer access in Swift

Question

I am porting an App from Objective-C to Swift and I need to use the following method:

CFStreamCreatePairWithSocketToHost(alloc: CFAllocator!, host: CFString!         


        

Answer 1

I wasn't able to get the examples others have provided in this thread to work. Sure, they compiled, but they crashed as soon as the connection was open.

However, I noticed in the WWDC 2014 discussions (and iOS 8 release notes) that there is a new method for initializing an NSStream for creating a bound pair of in/out streams.

See below:

var inputStream: NSInputStream?
var outputStream: NSOutputStream?

NSStream.getStreamsToHostWithName("localhost", port: 1234, inputStream: &inputStream, outputStream: &outputStream)

This removes the need for the awkward CFStreamCreatePairWithSocketToHost call as well as removing the need for Unmanaged resources.