Declaring and using custom attributes in Swift

Question

I would like to be able to annotate my types and methods with meta-data and read those at runtime.

The language reference explains how to declare attribute usages,

Answer 1

You can now do something like this! Check out "Property Wrappers" - https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Properties.html

Here's an example from that page:

@propertyWrapper
struct TwelveOrLess {
    private var number = 0
    var wrappedValue: Int {
        get { return number }
        set { number = min(newValue, 12) }
    }
}


struct SmallRectangle {
    @TwelveOrLess var height: Int
    @TwelveOrLess var width: Int
}

var rectangle = SmallRectangle()
print(rectangle.height)
// Prints "0"

rectangle.height = 10
print(rectangle.height)
// Prints "10"

rectangle.height = 24
print(rectangle.height)
// Prints "12"