在Swift中返回实例类型

Question

我正在尝试进行此扩展：

extension UIViewController
{
    class func initialize(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String) -> Self
    {
        let storyboad = UIStoryboard(name: storyboardName, bundle: nil)
        let controller = storyboad.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier(storyboardId) as! Self

        return controller
    }
}

但是我得到了编译错误：

错误：无法将类型’UIViewController’的返回表达式转换为类型’Self’

可能吗？我也想做到init(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String)

Answer 1

与在Swift的类扩展函数中使用’self’类似，您可以定义一个通用的辅助方法，该方法可以从调用上下文中推断出self的类型：

extension UIViewController
{
    class func instantiateFromStoryboard(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String) -> Self
    {
        return instantiateFromStoryboardHelper(storyboardName, storyboardId: storyboardId)
    }

    private class func instantiateFromStoryboardHelper<T>(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String) -> T
    {
        let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: storyboardName, bundle: nil)
        let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier(storyboardId) as! T
        return controller
    }
}

然后

let vc = MyViewController.instantiateFromStoryboard("name", storyboardId: "id")

进行编译，并将类型推断为MyViewController。

Swift 3 更新 ：

extension UIViewController
{
    class func instantiateFromStoryboard(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String) -> Self
    {
        return instantiateFromStoryboardHelper(storyboardName: storyboardName, storyboardId: storyboardId)
    }

    private class func instantiateFromStoryboardHelper<T>(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String) -> T
    {
        let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: storyboardName, bundle: nil)
        let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: storyboardId) as! T
        return controller
    }
}

另一种可能的解决方案，使用unsafeDowncast：

extension UIViewController
{
    class func instantiateFromStoryboard(storyboardName: String, storyboardId: String) -> Self
    {
        let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: storyboardName, bundle: nil)
        let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: storyboardId)
        return unsafeDowncast(controller, to: self)
    }
}