init(_:children:displayStyle:ancestorRepresentation:)

Declaration

init<Subject>(_ subject: Subject, children: KeyValuePairs<String, Any>, displayStyle: Mirror.DisplayStyle? = nil, ancestorRepresentation: Mirror.AncestorRepresentation = .generated)

Parameters

• subject:

  The instance to represent in the new mirror.

• children:

  A dictionary literal to use as the structure for the mirror. The children collection of the resulting mirror may be upgraded to a random access collection later. See the children property for details.

• displayStyle:

  The preferred display style for the mirror when presented in the debugger or in a playground. The default is nil.

• ancestorRepresentation:

  The means of generating the subject’s ancestor representation. ancestorRepresentation is ignored if subject is not a class instance. The default is .generated.

Discussion

You use this initializer from within your type’s customMirror implementation to create a customized mirror. Pass a dictionary literal with string keys as children. Although an actual dictionary is arbitrarily-ordered, when you create a mirror with a dictionary literal, the ordering of the mirror’s children will exactly match that of the literal you pass.

If subject is a class instance, ancestorRepresentation determines whether ancestor classes will be represented and whether their customMirror implementations will be used. By default, the customMirror implementation of any ancestors is ignored. To prevent bypassing customized ancestors, pass .customized({ super.customMirror }) as the ancestorRepresentation parameter when implementing your type’s customMirror property.