overriding CBLModel designated initializer in Swift

[Julian Paas]

Does anyone know how to override initWithDocument on CBLModel subclasses? I have tried as:

init(document: CBLDocument!) {

    super.init(document)
  }  

But it tells me "use of undeclared type CBLDocument". CBLDocument is definitely not unknown I use it in plenty of other swift classes. It only seems to be in my CBLModel subclass that it is unknown. I get the same result if I declare

  var x: CBLDocument?

[Robbie Bubble]

Did you included CBLDocument.h in your bridging header?

[Julian Paas]

I'm doing this in my bridging header which includes all of the CBL headers. But to be sure I did actually try explicitly adding CBLDocument.h but it didn't help.

#import <CouchbaseLite/CouchbaseLite.h>

[Karel-Jan Van Haute]

I'm having the same problem. Did you found the reason why you get the error?

[Julian Paas]

No I never figured it out. I worked around it by creating a factory method on my class for creating new instances that initializes the object the way I wanted to. Kinda lame, but it works.

[Karel-Jan Van Haute]

Can You share the method?

[Julian Paas]

It looks something like...

  class func newInstance(team: Team!) -> Game
    // Use the designated initializer
    let game = Game(newDocumentInDatabase: team.database)

    // Do whatever inititalization you want to do here. In my case I needed to do some initialization based on the team argument

    // If you want to return a saved instance, you can save it first
    var error: NSError?
    game.save(&error)
    if (error != nil) {
      DDLog.logError("Error creating game for \(team): \(error!)")
      return nil
    } else {
      DDLog.logInfo("Created game: \(game)"
    }

 return game

}

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 8:26:45 AM UTC-4, Karel-Jan Van Haute wrote:

Can You share the method?

On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:38:42 PM UTC+2, Julian Paas wrote:

No I never figured it out. I worked around it by creating a factory method on my class for creating new instances that initializes the object the way I wanted to. Kinda lame, but it works.

On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:28:52 AM UTC-4, Karel-Jan Van Haute wrote:It lo

[James Nocentini]

I'm not sure what the problem is but declaring a typealias and using that in the CBLModel subclass doesn't throw the compiler error.

typealias CBLDoc = CBLDocument

class Profile: CBLModel {
    override init!(document: CBLDoc) {
        super.init(document: document)
    }
}

[Jens Alfke]

Pasin figured it out (it's a weird naming issue in a protocol method) and checked in a fix yesterday.
It's a small patch and probably easy to cherry-pick onto any recent release.

—Jens