Passing Data from SwiftUI View to UIViewController - ios

Question

I've been testing SwiftUI to see how far I can go with it. Now, I want to find out whether or not I can pass a string from SwiftUI View directly to UIViewController. And I want to display this string with UILabel. UILabel is all I have on my storyoboard.
The following is my view controller (UIViewController).
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
class HomeViewController: UIViewController {
var message = String()
#IBOutlet weak var messageLabel: UILabel!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
messageLabel.text = message
}
}
struct HomeViewControllerRepresentation: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
func makeUIViewController(context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<HomeViewControllerRepresentation>) -> HomeViewController {
UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "homeViewController") as! HomeViewController
}
func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: HomeViewController, context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<HomeViewControllerRepresentation>) {
}
}
My SwiftUI View is the following.
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
VStack {
NavigationLink(destination: HomeViewControllerRepresentation(message: "GGG")) { // Error
Text("Tap me")
}
}
.navigationBarTitle("")
.navigationBarHidden(true)
}
}
}
I hoped that I could just pass a string with HomeViewControllerRepresentation. But it won't work. Is there a simple way of passing data from SwiftUI View to UIViewController? Thanks.

Answer 1

UIViewControllerRepresentable is not a proxy, but wrapper, so everything should be transferred manually, like
struct HomeViewControllerRepresentation: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
var message: String
func makeUIViewController(context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<HomeViewControllerRepresentation>) -> HomeViewController {
let controller = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "homeViewController") as! HomeViewController
controller.message = self.message
return controller
}
func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: HomeViewController, context: UIViewControllerRepresentableContext<HomeViewControllerRepresentation>) {
}
}