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Andrei Herford
Andrei Herford

Reputation: 18775

Mixed Swift / Objective-C project in Xcode 12: Why is UIImageView.setImage unknown?

I have just updated from Xcode 11 to 12 and tried to compile an existing project which uses Objective-C and Swift 5.

This fails with a lot of errors which say that UIImage does not have a setImage method: Value of type 'UIImageView' has no member 'setImage'

This is strange because in Xcode 11 this complies without any problem. When creating a fresh new project in Xcode 12 I get the same error, but changing the code to someImageView.image = ... works just fine.

However, someImageView.image = ... in my existing project fails with Cannot assign to value: 'image' is a method.

Why does the same code, which compiles in the new project fails in my existing project?

What is the correct way to assign a new image to an UIImageView in swift?

// Fails in Xcode 12 in existing and new project
// Compiles in Xcode 11 in existing project
someImageView.setImage(someImage)   

// ==> `Value of type 'UIImageView' has no member 'setImage'


// Fails in Xcode 12 in existing project
// Compiles in Xcode 12 in new project
someImageView.image = someImage

// ==> Cannot assign to value: 'image' is a method

EDIT:

Following the idea of @PhillipMills I now found a UIView extension which implements an image() method:

@interface UIView( Image )

-(UIImage *) image;
-(void) savePNG:(NSString *)filePath;
-(void) saveJPEG:(NSString *)filePath :(float)quality;

@end

This is part of an extension which handles PDF Images within UIImageView. On the other hand the Swift version of UIImageView implement image like this:

open class UIImageView : UIView {
    ...
    open var image: UIImage? // default is nil
}

Both in Xcode 11 and 12 someImageView.image = ... fails and the command click on image cannot be resolved and just shows a ?.

While Xcode 11 resolves someImageView.image() to UIImageView, the same is resolved to the UIView extension in Xcode 12. Why is this?

In Xcode 11 someImageView.setImage(...) is resolved to UIImageView while the same fails in Xcode 12.

Using the setImage() method in Objectiv-C is no problem both in Xcode 11 and 12.

Questions:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 334

Answers (1)

KinhChenDev
KinhChenDev

Reputation: 77

I'm pretty sure that your project or 3rd party library has an extension for UIView that export a method name image. My case is that image method used to export the image of UIView. The consequence is imageview.image is becoming a method and swift automatically generate the method setImage for your UIImageView. Reason? UIImageView is a subclass from UIView. Believe me and begin to search every corner of your project, carefully check every 3rd party library, especially those that not very popular.

Upvotes: 2

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