How to return a View type from a function in Swift UI

Question

I am trying to create a somewhat elegant navigation system for my App. Below is a function that attempts to return a View type. This does not compile with:

    func getView(view: String) -> View {
        switch view {
        case "CreateUser":
            return CreateNewsView()
        default:
            return nil
        }
    }

The above results in a compile error: Protocol 'View' can only be used as a generic constraint because it has Self or associated type requirements

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

I managed to fix this by using the AnyView() wrapper:

func getView(view: String?) -> AnyView {
        switch view {
        case "CreateUser":
            return AnyView(CreateNewsView())
        default:
            return AnyView(EmptyView())
        }
    }

Answer 2

As of Swift 5.3 @hồng-phúc Answer is somehow right, just needs adding the @ViewBuilder Property explicitly.

@ViewBuilder func getView(view: String) -> some View {
    switch view {
    case "CreateUser":
        Text(view)
    case "Abc":
        Image("Abc")
    default:
        EmptyView()
    }
}

Side note: Please avoid using String Literals. Better use an enum.