Snippet: SwiftUI View printMessage extension

Just a simple utility to print a string in the middle of a view chain when doing SwiftUI (pardon narrow formatting for blog):

extension View {
  func printMessage(_ msg: Any...,
              separator: String = " ",
              terminator: String = "\n")
            -> some View {
    // Print them out as if not
    // converted to an array.
    for m in msg {
      print(m,
            separator,
            terminator: "")
    }
    print()
    return self
  }
}

Use like this:

import SwiftUI
import PlaygroundSupport

struct ContentView: View {
  var body: some View {
    VStack {
      TestView(label: "hello", idx: 22)
        .font(.title)
      TestView(label: "hello", idx: 24)
        .foregroundColor(Color.red)
      Spacer()
    }
  }
}

struct TestView: View {
  let label: String
  let idx: Int

  var body: some View {
    Text(label)
      .padding(10)
      .printMessage("\(self.label):", "\(self.idx)")
     // or: .printMessage(self.label, self.idx)
  }
}

PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())

// In a Swift playground the output is:

hello: 22
hello: 24
hello: 22
hello: 24
hello: 22
hello: 24

Gist here.

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