Starscream: 'count' is unavailable: there is no universally good answer

[BlakeBarrett]

I updated to the latest version (3.0.3) and am now getting a strange error in four places.

My environment is:
• Xcode 8.3.3
• Swift 3.2
• Starscream 3.0.3

The errors I'm seeing are:

• /…/WebSocket.swift:270:86: 'count' is unavailable: there is no universally good answer, see the documentation comment for discussion
  
  
  
  • /…/WebSocket.swift:593:35: 'count' is unavailable: there is no universally good answer, see the documentation comment for discussion
  
  
  • /…/WebSocket.swift:877:26: 'count' is unavailable: there is no universally good answer, see the documentation comment for discussion
  
  
  • /…/WebSocket.swift:878:33: 'count' is unavailable: there is no universally good answer, see the documentation comment for discussion
  
  

I imagine this would be simple enough to fix with:

fileprivate extension String {
   var count: Int {
      return self.characters.count
   }
}

[BlakeBarrett]

I am running Xcode 8.3.3 in Swift 3.2 language mode.
I assume this came about because the rest of the civilized world has upgraded to Xcode 9/Swift 4 by now.

[BlakeBarrett]

This Pull Request fixes this issue (for me).

[introrse]

I had the same problem using Xcode 8.3.3, also in Swift 3.2 mode, and a brand-new Carthage-based install. I manually applied Blake's patch and it resolved the issue.

[introrse]

Also, for anyone else wondering, Xcode 9.2 seems to work out of the box, without the patch mentioned above. Which makes sense since Swift 4 made Strings collections again.

[daltoniam]

ha, yeah I didn't do anything with Swift 3.2 😄. I pulled in your PR though (#443) into the latest 3.0.4 release. Thanks again.

[Saifalip]

@daltoniam could help me i am also facing the same error 'count' is unavailable: there is no universally good answer.
i am using xcode 8.1 to run

[BlakeBarrett]

Which version of Starscream are you using in your project @Saifalip?
Updating to version 3.0.4 (which includes the fix I linked to) solved all my problems.