How to use indexesOfObjectsPassingTest: in Swift

Question

The declaration of indexesOfObjectsPassingTest: looks like this in Swift,

func indexesOfObjectsPassingTest(predicate: ((AnyObject!, Int, CMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) -> Bool)!) -> NSIndexSet!

I've tried all sorts of permutations to get this to work, but I'm stumped, particularly with how you deal with this piece, CMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) -> Bool)!. I found it confusing enough, when I was first learning blocks in objective-c, how you translate from the declaration to actual use of a method, and the syntax of Swift is at least as confusing.

Answer 1

This code is working in the Playground for me ;) Hope it helps a bit

Extra Function-Definition

import Cocoa

let list = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

func test (object: AnyObject!, index: Int, stop: CMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) -> Bool
{
    let number = object as Int
    return (number % 2 == 0) //for even numbers
}

let result: NSIndexSet = (list as NSArray).indexesOfObjectsPassingTest(test)

println("\(result.lastIndex)") //prints "6" (because 8%2=0)

Inline-Closure

I transformed my above example to work with an inline-closure (described in the Swift-eBook). The parameter-list and return-type is separated by the term in.

import Cocoa

let list = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

let result: NSIndexSet = (list as NSArray).indexesOfObjectsPassingTest({
(object: AnyObject!, index: Int, stop: CMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) -> Bool in
    let number = object as Int
    return (number % 2 == 0) //for even numbers
})

println("\(result.lastIndex)") //prints "6" (because 8%2=0)

Answer 2

Seems like CMutablePointer was recently changed to UnsafeMutablePointer.

This one worked for me:

let indices = myArray.indexesOfObjectsPassingTest({
    (obj: AnyObject!, idx: Int, stop: UnsafeMutablePointer<ObjCBool>) -> Bool in
    var didPass = false
    //determine if obj passes test, if it does set didPass = true
    return didPass
})