Swift parameters are not visible inside of Objective C Function? - objective-c

Question

Some background: I'm building an app in react native that uses an Objective C library written about 6 or 7 years ago, maybe older. I'm writing swift code that has been set up to send callbacks to the react native application in JS. I have this function that I'm trying to use:
token = service.getUserToken(server,
port: P2PFunctions.tls_port,
appId: P2PFunctions.appID,
appSecret: P2PFunctions.appSecret,
phone: P2PFunctions.phone,
token: nil, errcode: errCode, errmsg: nil);
callback(["\(token!)"]);
And this is its definition:
- (NSInteger)getUserToken:(NSString*)ip_In port:(NSInteger)port_In appId:
(NSString*)appId_In appSecret:(NSString*)appSecret_In phone:
(NSString*)phoneNum_In token:(NSString**)accessTok_Out errcode:
(NSString**)strErrCode_Out errmsg:(NSString**)errMsg_Out;
These are the types I'm using (EDIT: I changed them from private to public, and they still are not being recognized):
The problem is, I'm getting nil back from the function. I believe I'm getting an HTTP response that is empty, and I notice that inside the debugger when I step to the Objective C function, I see nil for all my parameters inside of the Objective C function. I think... it is that I'm not passing the correct type. Or my Swift parameters are not visible in Objective C's memory space. If it is expecting an (NSString *), should I be passing a String?
How do I pass the correct types from Swift to Objective C? What would I change in my function call? Are my parameter types okay? I cannot edit the original Objective C library. They share a common memory space for all variables in the entire program, right?
Thank you so much!

Answer 1

I just ran this successfully:
// the objc part
#interface Test : NSObject
- (NSInteger)getUserToken:(NSString*)ip_In
port:(NSInteger)port_In
appId:(NSString*)appId_In
appSecret:(NSString*)appSecret_In
phone:(NSString*)phoneNum_In
token:(NSString* _Nonnull * _Nonnull)accessTok_Out
errcode:(NSString* _Nonnull * _Nonnull)strErrCode_Out
errmsg:(NSString* _Nonnull * _Nonnull)errMsg_Out;
#end
#implementation Test
- (NSInteger)getUserToken:(NSString*)ip_In
port:(NSInteger)port_In
appId:(NSString*)appId_In
appSecret:(NSString*)appSecret_In
phone:(NSString*)phoneNum_In
token:(NSString**)accessTok_Out
errcode:(NSString**)strErrCode_Out
errmsg:(NSString**)errMsg_Out {
*accessTok_Out = #"Token";
*strErrCode_Out = #"OK";
*errMsg_Out = #"msg";
return 42;
}
#end
// and the swift part
let t = Test()
var token: NSString = "t"
var errcode: NSString = "c"
var errmsg: NSString = "m"
let result = t.getUserToken("ip", port: 1,
appId: "2", appSecret: "3", phone: "4",
token: &token, errcode: &errcode, errmsg: &errmsg)
print(result)
and it works as expected.
Maybe this gives you a hint as to what's different in your situation.

Answer 2

So, after spending a week or so on this problem, I realize that it was not that the parameters are not actually being passed, but that the debugger is just not displaying the values of those parameters, at least on the main thread. Because I was getting the error code, I thought that something had to be wrong with the way I called the function - but actually, the function call is fine, the variables just didn't appear in the debugger for some reason:
Variables above appear to be nil - but in fact, they do have values.