I was working with Swinject and a problem is bugging me. I have been stuck one this for almost an entire day. I suspect this is due to Swift being a statictly typed language but I'm not entirely sure.
I summarized my problem in this playground
protocol Protocol {}
class Class: Protocol {}
let test: Protocol.Type = Class.self
func printType(confromingClassType: Protocol.Type) {
print(confromingClassType)
}
func printType<Service>(serviceType: Service.Type) {
print(serviceType)
}
print(Class.self) // "Class"
printType(serviceType: Class.self) // "Class"
print(test) // "Class"
printType(confromingClassType: test) // "Class"
printType(serviceType: test) // "note: expected an argument list of type '(serviceType: Service.Type)'"
I tried different solutions like test.self or type(of: test) but none of them work.
So I guess I can't call a function with a generic parameter provided as a variable ?