I’ve been kicking the wheels on Xcode 12 and its capacity to make use of frameworks and packages with playgrounds. Up till now, I’ve solely been in a position to import packages which can be both downloaded or developed domestically on my house system. Nevertheless, loads of the packages I wish to work with are hosted from GitHub.
I made a decision to comply with a hunch and see if I may import my dependency by means of an area Forwarding bundle after which use that code. Lengthy story brief: I may.
Right here’s my playground, efficiently working.
The RuntimeImplementation is said in a GitHub-hosted bundle known as Swift-Basic-Utility:
What I did to make this work was that I created what I known as a Forwarding Utility, whose sole job is to create a shell bundle that depends upon the distant bundle and forwards it to the playground. It seems like this. It’s a single file known as “Forwarding.swift” (no, the identify is by no means magic.) in Sources/. I exploit @_exported to ahead the import.
/* Use this to ahead web-based dependencies to Swift Pkg */ @_exported import GeneralUtility
Its Bundle.swift installs the dependency:
dependencies: [ .package(url: "https://github.com/erica/Swift-General-Utility", .exact("0.0.4")), ],
targets: [
.target(
name: "ForwardingUtility",
dependencies: [ .product(name: "GeneralUtility"), ],
path: "Sources/"
),
],
And that’s just about all that there’s to it, aside from (as I discussed in my different publish about how one can use SwiftPM packages in playground workspaces) that you could have to give up and re-open the primary beta earlier than you possibly can import the forwarding.
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