appearanceWhenContainedIn in Swift

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Update for iOS 9:

If you’re targeting iOS 9+ (as of Xcode 7 b1), there is a new method in the UIAppearance protocol which does not use varargs:

static func appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses(containerTypes: [AnyObject.Type]) -> Self

Which can be used like so:

UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([MyViewController.self]).keyboardAppearance = .Light

If you still need to support iOS 8 or earlier, use the following original answer to this question.

For iOS 8 & 7:

These methods are not available to Swift because Obj-C varargs methods are not compatible with Swift (see http://www.openradar.me/17302764).

I wrote a non-variadic workaround which works in Swift (I repeated the same method for UIBarItem, which doesn’t descend from UIView):

// UIAppearance+Swift.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
@interface UIView (UIViewAppearance_Swift)
// appearanceWhenContainedIn: is not available in Swift. This fixes that.
+ (instancetype)my_appearanceWhenContainedIn:(Class<UIAppearanceContainer>)containerClass;
@end
NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END

—

// UIAppearance+Swift.m
#import "UIAppearance+Swift.h"
@implementation UIView (UIViewAppearance_Swift)
+ (instancetype)my_appearanceWhenContainedIn:(Class<UIAppearanceContainer>)containerClass {
    return [self appearanceWhenContainedIn:containerClass, nil];
}
@end

Just be sure to #import "UIAppearance+Swift.h" in your bridging header.

Then, to call from Swift (for example):

# Swift 2.x:
UITextField.my_appearanceWhenContainedIn(MyViewController.self).keyboardAppearance = .Light

# Swift 3.x:
UITextField.my_appearanceWhenContained(in: MyViewController.self).keyboardAppearance = .light

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