Generic Global elegant way to add bar button items to any UIViewController of the project

Usually we have a predefined set of UIBarButtonItem in the project that can be used in the project and multiple times like a left menu button to open a side menu, it can be used in different UIViewControllers also a close button that dismiss the presented view controller.

The classic way is to add these buttons as needed, but this introduce a code duplication and we all want to avoid that.

My come up with an approach, but it's far from being perfect :

enum BarButtonItemType {
    case menu, close, notification
}

enum BarButtonItemPosition{
    case right, left
}

extension UIViewController {

    func add(barButtons:[BarButtonItemType], position: BarButtonItemPosition) {

        let barButtonItems = barButtons.map { rightBarButtonType -> UIBarButtonItem in
            switch rightBarButtonType {
            case .menu:
                return UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(named:"menu"),
                    style: .plain,
                    target: self,
                    action: #selector(presentLeftMenu(_:)))
            case .notification:
                return UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(named:"notification"),
                style: .plain,
                target: self,
                action: #selector(showNotification(_:)))
            case .close:
                return UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(named:"close"),
                    style: .plain,
                    target: self,
                    action: #selector(dismissController(_:)))
            }
        }

        switch position {
        case .right:
            self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems = barButtonItems
        case .left:
            self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems  = barButtonItems
        }
    }

    // MARK: Actions
    @objc fileprivate func presentLeftMenu(_ sender:AnyObject) {
        self.parent?.presentLeftMenuViewController(sender)
    }

    @objc fileprivate func dismissController(_ sender:AnyObject) {
        self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

   @objc fileprivate func showNotification(_ sender:AnyObject) {
       let notificationViewController = UINavigationController(rootViewController:NotificationViewController())
       self.present(notificationViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
   }
}

and then the usage:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.add(barButtons: [.close], position: .right)
    self.add(barButtons: [.menu], position: .left)
}

The limitations of my approach are:

• The extension needs to know how to instantiate new view controller (case of notification for example) and what if viewController must be inited with parameters

• It assumes that you only want to present a UIViewController

• Not elegant.

I am sure that there is better way with Swift language and protocol oriented programming that can achieve the intended result with more flexibility, any thoughts ?