Swift Inheritance: Super's Super

Question

Supposing to have this three classes with this simply hierarchy:

class A {
    func foo() {
       print("A")
    }
}

class B: A {
    override func foo() {
       super.foo()
       print("B")
    }
}

class C: B {
    override func foo() {
       // *******
       print("C")
    }
}

In class C, in overrided method foo I want to call a method foo: is it possible?

In C++ this can be achieved with C->A::foo(), but how do I do this in Swift?

Answer 1

super.foo() should be sufficient, since B prints "B" and calls super to print "A".

class C: B {
    override func foo() {
        super.foo()
        print("C")
    }
}

let c = C()
c.foo()

Output:

A
B
C

If you want to intentionally expose A's foo() from B, you need to create a new accessor:

class B: A {
    override func foo() {
        super.foo()
        print("B")
    }

    func exposeFoo() {
        super.foo()
    }
}

class C: B {
    override func foo() {
        super.exposeFoo()
        print("C")
    }
}

Or, use NSObject and the power of the Objective-C runtime:

class A: NSObject { // make sure your base class inherits from NSObject
    func foo() {
        print("A")
    }
}

// ...

class C: B {
    override func foo() {

        guard let superSuper = self.superclass?.superclass() else {
            return; // no super super
        }

        let fooImp = class_getMethodImplementation(superSuper, "foo")

        typealias MyCFunction = @convention(c) (AnyObject, Selector) -> Void
        let curriedImplementation = unsafeBitCast(fooImp, MyCFunction.self)
        curriedImplementation(self, selector) // prints A
    }
}