Swift 2.0 Get Mirrored Superclass Properties

Question

I need to get the properties of my class as a dictionary. For simplicity, I created a protocol which has a default implementation as follows:

protocol ListsP         


        

Answer 1

One possible solution would be to implement toDictionary() as a method of Mirror itself, so that you can traverse recursively to the superclass mirror:

extension Mirror {

    func toDictionary() -> [String: AnyObject] {
        var dict = [String: AnyObject]()

        // Properties of this instance:
        for attr in self.children {
            if let propertyName = attr.label {
                dict[propertyName] = attr.value as? AnyObject
            }
        } 

        // Add properties of superclass:
        if let parent = self.superclassMirror() {
            for (propertyName, value) in parent.toDictionary() {
                dict[propertyName] = value
            }
        }

        return dict
    }
}

and then use that to implement the protocol extension method:

extension ListsProperties {
    func toDictionary() -> [String: AnyObject] {
        return Mirror(reflecting: self).toDictionary()
    }
}