Swift enum with custom initializer loses rawValue initializer

Question

I have tried to boil this issue down to its simplest form with the following.

Setup

Xcode Version 6.1.1 (6A2008a)

An enum defined in MyEnum.swift

Answer 1

Yeah this is an annoying issue. I'm currently working around it using a global-scope function that acts as a factory, i.e.

func enumFromString(string:String) -> MyEnum? {
    switch string {
    case "One" : MyEnum(rawValue:1)
    case "Two" : MyEnum(rawValue:2)
    case "Three" : MyEnum(rawValue:3)
    default : return nil
    }
}