WTF. How is UUID not one of the types you can store in @SceneStorage? And worse, how come the limited types usable aren't documented*? #Swift #SwiftUI
*I've searched the pages for SceneStorage, AppStorage, and “Restoring your app's state with SwiftUI" and haven't found mention of data type restrictions.
I scrutinized the “Restoring your app's state with SwiftUI" page and found this one sentence buried innocuously in a dense paragraph: “The value is required to be of a plist type, so the system can save and restore it correctly.”
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/restoring-your-app-s-state-with-swiftui
Nowhere does it list what “plist type” contains, nor does it link to a definition. After manually searching for plist types I found the “Information Property List" page on Apple's documentation site, which also does not provide any useful information about supported data types.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information-property-list
@gregatron5 an approximation of them is listed on the UserDefaults page:
"The defaults database supports the same value types found in property list files, including types like Int, Float, Double, Bool, String, URL, NSNumber, Date, Array, and Dictionary. To include other types of objects in the defaults database, archive them to a Data object first and store that object instead.”
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/userdefaults
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