distance(from:to:)' is unavailable: Any String view index conversion can fail in Swift 4; please unwrap the optional indices

Question

I was trying to migrate my app to Swift 4, Xcode 9. I get this error. Its coming from a 3rd party framework.

distance(from:to:)' is unavailable: Any String view index conversion can fail in Swift 4; please unwrap the optional indices

func nsRange(from range: Range<String.Index>) -> NSRange {
    let utf16view = self.utf16
    let from = range.lowerBound.samePosition(in: utf16view)
    let to = range.upperBound.samePosition(in: utf16view)
    return NSMakeRange(utf16view.distance(from: utf16view.startIndex, to: from), // Error: distance(from:to:)' is unavailable: Any String view index conversion can fail in Swift 4; please unwrap the optional indices
                       utf16view.distance(from: from, to: to))// Error: distance(from:to:)' is unavailable: Any String view index conversion can fail in Swift 4; please unwrap the optional indices
}

Answer 1

You can simply unwrap the optional indices like this:

func nsRange(from range: Range<String.Index>) -> NSRange? {
    let utf16view = self.utf16
    if let from = range.lowerBound.samePosition(in: utf16view), let to = range.upperBound.samePosition(in: utf16view) {
       return NSMakeRange(utf16view.distance(from: utf16view.startIndex, to: from), utf16view.distance(from: from, to: to))
    }
    return nil
}