Getting name of the class from an instance

Question

I have the following problem: I get an instance of a class passed and want to know the name of the class of this instance. How to get this?

Answer 1

If you are looking how get classname in Swift you can use reflect to get information about object.

let tokens = split(reflect(self).summary, { $0 == "." })
if let typeName = tokens.last {
    println(typeName)
}