I've followed the solution at Make a Swift dictionary where the key is "Type"? to create dictionaries that can use a class type as keys. What I want to do is: I have one dictionary that should store class types with their class type (aka metatype) as keys, too:
class MyScenario {
static var metatype:Metatype<MyScenario> {
return Metatype(self)
}
}
var scenarioClasses:[Metatype<MyScenario>: MyScenario.Type] = [:]
Then I have methods to register and execute scenarios:
public func registerScenario(scenarioID:MyScenario.Type) {
if (scenarioClasses[scenarioID.metatype] == nil) {
scenarioClasses[scenarioID.metatype] = scenarioID
}
}
public func executeScenario(scenarioID:MyScenario.Type) {
if let scenarioClass = scenarioClasses[scenarioID.metatype] {
let scenario = scenarioClass()
}
}
... Problem is in the last line:
Constructing an object of class type 'MyScenario' with a metatype value must use a 'required' initializer.
It looks like the compiler is confused at that point since I cannot use 'required' at that assignment. Does anyone have an idea how I would have to instantiate the scenarioClass
in executeScenario()
?