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alicia
alicia

Reputation: 47

How to Test a Swift Script that's not in a Xcode Project

I started writing a basic swift script file and compiling it as:

swiftc *.swift -o exporter

Script doesn't do anything right now, but will have export, import_files etc. functions. I'm trying to find how I can test this basic script file?

Ideally, I'd have an exporter_test.swift file which I have all my unit tests. Also, it's important to note that I'm fairly new to swift, so not sure if this is doable outside of Xcode.

exporter.swift

func export() -> {
    // will do exporting of data that's been imported in import_files
}

func import_files(files: [String]) -> {
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 583

Answers (1)

Adrian Sluyters
Adrian Sluyters

Reputation: 2251

You could execute it using the "swift" command line utility:

example:

Create a file (test.swift) with the following contents:

import Foundation
debugPrint("hello!")`

Then from the command prompt just run it with:

swift ./test.swift

and you should get:

13:24 $ swift ./test.swift 
"hello!"

Form within Xcode if you wanted it to execute via the build stages, then you'd have to add a "run script" stage.

  1. In Xcode, click on the project in the Project Navigator (on the left)

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  1. On the right (main pane) select the target that needs to have the script run on

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  1. Click on the Build Phases tab

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  1. Click the + to add a new phase and choose `New Run Script Phase

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  1. Edit the script as required... e.g.

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Just note that in 5. above, you'll probably have to rely on the build-time environment variables to reference files. Directly referencing a file i.e. as I did in my example will probably be caught up in a sort of "chroot" where / isn't actually / but rather a folder relating to the build directories.

Upvotes: 2

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