Hey all,
I'm currently playing around with macros and I've hit a bit of a problem. I'm wanting to set up a macro to define a relationship between two properties, for example:
class MyClassA {
@Relationship(inverse: \MyClassB.objectA) var objectB: MyClassB?
}
class MyClassB {
@Relationship(inverse: \MyClassA.objectB) var objectAs: Set<MyClassA>
}
The problem is, I'm getting a Circular reference resolving attached macro 'Relationship' error from the compiler.
The Macro is defined like so (the implementation doesn't matter as I get this regardless of implementation if both properties have the macro attached):
@attached(accessor, names: named(get), named(set))
@attached(peer, names: prefixed(_))
public macro Relationship(inverse: AnyKeyPath) = #externalMacro(module: "M3DataMacros", type: "RelationshipMacro")
I've searched online and found a bunch of similar issues (especially with the similar macro from SwiftData) but before I start looking for a workaround I wanted to know if this is a compiler bug [1] or if it's expected behaviour that this should not work?
It feels like it should be possible to do as I'm just wanting a keypath that will be inserted into the generated code, I'm not changing the other property definition.
[1] I found this bug but I'm not sure if it covers this particular case as it's more about sub types Extensions for subtype of a class marked @Observable generate compile error · Issue #66450 · apple/swift · GitHub