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Apple Geek

Reputation: 1121

'Use of Unresolved Identifier' in Swift

So I have been making an app, and everything has been working great. But today I made a new class like usual and for some reason in this class I can't access Public/Global variable from other classes. All the other classes can, but now when ever I try to make a new class I can't. How would this be fixed?

I am using Swift and Xcode 6.

Working Class:

import UIKit
import Foundation
import Parse
import CoreData

var signedIn = true

class ViewController: UIViewController {

New Class:

import UIKit

class NewClass: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        signedIn = false

}

But on signedIn = false

I get the error:

use of unresolved identifier "signedIn"

Upvotes: 94

Views: 212386

Answers (15)

ThomasW
ThomasW

Reputation: 17317

Once I had this problem after renaming a file. I renamed the file from within Xcode, but afterwards Xcode couldn't find the function in the file. Even a clean rebuild didn't fix the problem, but closing and then re-opening the project got the build to work.

Upvotes: 12

Nat
Nat

Reputation: 12968

This is not directly to your code sample, but in general about the error. I'm writing it here, because Google directs this error to this question, so it may be useful for the other devs.

Another use case when you can receive such error is when you're adding a selector to method in another class, eg:

private class MockTextFieldTarget {
private(set) var didCallDoneAction = false
    @objc func doneActionHandler() {
        didCallDoneAction = true
    }
}

And then in another class:

final class UITextFieldTests: XCTestCase {
    func testDummyCode() {
        let mockTarget = MockTextFieldTarget()
        UIBarButtonItem(barButtonSystemItem: .cancel, target: mockTarget, action: MockTextFieldTarget.doneActionHandler)
        // ... do something ...
    }
}

If in the last line you'd simply call #selector(cancelActionHandler) instead of #selector(MockTextFieldTarget.cancelActionHandler), you'd get

use of unresolved identifier

error.

Upvotes: 0

Hola Soy Edu Feliz Navidad
Hola Soy Edu Feliz Navidad

Reputation: 7092

My issue was calling my program with the same name as one of its cocoapods. It caused a conflict. Solution: Create a program different name.

Upvotes: 0

Ribaz
Ribaz

Reputation: 676

In my case, I had an Object-C file which was also in the same Target Membership. I fixed by adding #import "YourObjectCFileHeader.h" inside file Bridging-Header.h

Upvotes: 3

Davron Jabborov
Davron Jabborov

Reputation: 11

You forgot to declare the variable. Just put var in front of signedIn = false

Upvotes: 0

Cons Bulaquena
Cons Bulaquena

Reputation: 2113

'Use of Unresolved Identifier' in Swift my also happen when you forgot to import a library. For example I have the error: enter image description here

In which I forgot the UIKit

import UIKit

Upvotes: 7

Vinod Supnekar
Vinod Supnekar

Reputation: 153

I got this error for Mantle Framework in my Objective-Swift Project. What i tried is ,

  1. Check if import is there in Bridging-Header.h file
  2. Change the Target Membership for Framework in Mantle.h file as shown in below screenshot.

Toggle between Private Membership first build the project , end up with errors. Then build the project with Public Membership for all the frameworks appeared for Mantle.h file, you must get success.

It is just a bug of building with multiple framework in Objective-C Swift project.

enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

abhimanyu jindal
abhimanyu jindal

Reputation: 668

I did a stupid mistake. I forgot to mention the class as public or open while updating code in cocoapod workspace.

Please do check whether accesor if working in separate workspace.

Upvotes: 0

lchamp
lchamp

Reputation: 6612

One possible issue is that your new class has a different Target or different Targets from the other one.

For example, it might have a testing target while the other one doesn't. For this specific case, you have to include all of your classes in the testing target or none of them.

Targets

Upvotes: 298

htafoya
htafoya

Reputation: 19283

If this is regarding a class you created, be sure that the class is not nested.

F.e

A.swift

class A {

   class ARelated {

   }
}

calling var b = ARelated() will give 'Use of unresolved identifier: ARelated'.

You can either:

1) separate the classes if wanted on the same file:

A.swift

class A {

}

class ARelated {

}

2) Maintain your same structure and use the enclosing class to get to the subclass:

var b = A.ARelated

Upvotes: 0

mfaani
mfaani

Reputation: 36427

For me this error happened because I was trying to call a nested function. Only thing I had to do to have it fixed was to bring the function out to a scope where it was visible.

Upvotes: 3

M Johnson
M Johnson

Reputation: 11

Your NewClass inherits from UIViewController. You declared signedIn in ViewController. If you want NewClass to be able to identify that variable it will have to be declared in a class that your NewClass inherits from.

Upvotes: 1

capikaw
capikaw

Reputation: 12976

Another place I've seen this error is when your project has multiple targets AND multiple bridging headers. If it's a shared class, make sure you add the resource to all bridging headers.

A good tip to is to look in the left Issue Navigator panel; the root object will show the target that is issuing the complaint.

Upvotes: 4

snakeoil
snakeoil

Reputation: 497

Sometimes the compiler gets confused about the syntax in your class. This happens a lot if you paste in source from somewhere else.

Try reducing the "unresolved" source file down to the bare minimum, cleaning and building. Once it builds successfully add all the complexity back to your class.

This has made it go away for me when re-starting Xcode did not work.

Upvotes: 4

Ftagliacarne
Ftagliacarne

Reputation: 800

Because you haven't declared it. If you want to use a variable of another class you must use 

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    var DestViewController : ViewController = segue.destinationViewController as ViewController
    DestViewController.signedIn = false
}

You have to put this code at the end of the NewClass code

Upvotes: 1

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