Finally figured out a solution/workaround to this issue. If you remove the property wrapper from the subclass, and call the baseclass objectWillChange.send() on the variable the state is updated properly.
NOTE: Do not redeclare let objectWillChange = PassthroughSubject<Void, Never>()
on the subclass as that will again cause the state not to update properly.
I hope this is something that will be fixed in future releases as the objectWillChange.send()
is a lot of boilerplate to maintain.
Here is a fully working example:
import SwiftUI
class MyTestObject: ObservableObject {
@Published var aString: String = ""
}
class MyInheritedObject: MyTestObject {
// Using @Published doesn't work on a subclass
// @Published var anotherString: String = ""
// If you add the following to the subclass updating the state also doesn't work properly
// let objectWillChange = PassthroughSubject<Void, Never>()
// But if you update the value you want to maintain state
// of using the objectWillChange.send() method provided by the
// baseclass the state gets updated properly... Jaayy!
var anotherString: String = "" {
willSet { self.objectWillChange.send() }
}
}
struct MyTestView: View {
@ObservedObject var myTestObject = MyTestObject()
@ObservedObject var myInheritedObject = MyInheritedObject()
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
VStack(alignment: .leading) {
TextField("Update aString", text: self.$myTestObject.aString)
Text("Value of aString is: \(self.myTestObject.aString)")
TextField("Update anotherString", text: self.$myInheritedObject.anotherString)
Text("Value of anotherString is: \(self.myInheritedObject.anotherString)")
}
}
}
}