Swift - Cast Int into enum:Int

Question

I am very new to Swift (got started this week) and I'm migrating my app from Objective-C. I have basically the following code in Objective-C that works fine:

typedef enum : int {
    MyTimeFilter1Hour = 1,
    MyTimeFilter1Day = 2,
    MyTimeFilter7Day = 3,
    MyTimeFilter1Month = 4,
} MyTimeFilter;

...

- (void)selectFilter:(id)sender
{
    self.timeFilterSelected = (MyTimeFilter)((UIButton *)sender).tag;
    [self closeAnimated:YES];
}

When translating it to Swift, I did the following:

enum MyTimeFilter : Int {
    case OneHour = 1
    case OneDay = 2
    case SevenDays = 3
    case OneMonth = 4
}

...

@IBAction func selectFilter(sender: AnyObject) {
    self.timeFilterSelected = (sender as UIButton).tag as MyTimeFilter
    self.close(true)
}

By doing that, I get the error :

'Int' is not convertible to 'MyTimeFilter'

I don't know if my approach (using the tag property) is the best, but anyway I need to do this kind of casting in different places in my app. Does anyone have an idea of how to get rid of this error?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the rawValue initializer: it's an initializer automatically generated for enums.

self.timeFilterSelected = MyTimeFilter(rawValue: (sender as UIButton).tag)!

see: The Swift Programming Language § Enumerations

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NOTE: This answer has changed. Earlier version of Swift use the class method fromRaw() to convert raw values to enumerated values.

Answer 2

Swift 5

@IBAction func selectFilter(sender: AnyObject) {
    timeFilterSelected = MyTimeFilter(rawValue: sender.tag)
 }

Answer 3

elaborating on Jeffery Thomas's answer. to be safe place a guard statement unwrap the cast before using it, this will avoid crashes

   @IBAction func selectFilter(sender: AnyObject) {
     guard let filter = MyTimeFilter(rawValue: (sender as UIButton).tag) else { 
        return
    }
        timeFilterSelected = filter
     }