Migrating from UIWebView to WKWebView

UIWebView => WKWebView Equivalent

UIWebViewDelegate => WKNavigationDelegate

delegate => navigationDelegate
didFailLoadWithError => didFailNavigation
webViewDidFinishLoad => didFinishNavigation
webViewDidStartLoad => didStartProvisionalNavigation
shouldStartLoadWithRequest => decidePolicyForNavigationAction

About shouldStartLoadWithRequest you can write:

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationActionPolicy) -> Void) {
    print("webView:\(webView) decidePolicyForNavigationAction:\(navigationAction) decisionHandler:\(decisionHandler)")
    
    switch navigationAction.navigationType {
        case .linkActivated:
        if navigationAction.targetFrame == nil {
            self.webView?.loadRequest(navigationAction.request)
        }
        if let url = navigationAction.request.url, !url.absoluteString.hasPrefix("http://www.myWebSite.com/example") {
            UIApplication.shared.open(url)
            print(url.absoluteString)
            decisionHandler(.cancel)
        return
        }
        default:
            break
    }
    
    if let url = navigationAction.request.url {
        print(url.absoluteString)
    }
    decisionHandler(.allow)
}

And for the didFailLoadWithError:

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFail navigation: WKNavigation!, withError error: Error) {
    print("webView:\(webView) didFailNavigation:\(navigation) withError:\(error)")
    let testHTML = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "back-error-bottom", ofType: "jpg")
    let baseUrl = URL(fileURLWithPath: testHTML!)

    let htmlString = "myErrorInHTML"
    self.webView.loadHTMLString(htmlString, baseURL: baseUrl)
}

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