What is the Swift equivalent of -[NSObject description]?

Question

In Objective-C, one can add a description method to their class to aid in debugging:

@implementation MyClass
- (NSString *)description
{
    ret         


        

Answer 1

class SomeBaseClass: CustomStringConvertible {

    //private var string: String = "SomeBaseClass"

    var description: String {
        return "\(self.dynamicType)"
    }

    // Use this in newer versions of Xcode
    var description: String {
        return "\(type(of: self))"
    }

}

class SomeSubClass: SomeBaseClass {
    // If needed one can override description here

}


var mySomeBaseClass = SomeBaseClass()
// Outputs SomeBaseClass
var mySomeSubClass = SomeSubClass()
// Outputs SomeSubClass
var myOtherBaseClass = SomeSubClass()
// Outputs SomeSubClass