Xcode, Swift; Detect hyperlink click in UIWebView - ios

Question

I made an iOS app with Xcode and Swift.
I want to open specific hyperlinks in Safari browser, there others in the WebView itself.
To reach this, I'll have to check when an hyperlinks gets clicked.
This is the code I have so far:
//
// PushViewController.swift
// App
//
//
import UIKit
class PushViewController: UIViewController, UIWebViewDelegate {
#IBOutlet var openpushmessage: UIWebView!
var weburl:String = "http://www.example.com"
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let url: NSURL = NSURL(string: weburl)!
let requestURL: NSURLRequest = NSURLRequest(URL: url)
openpushmessage.loadRequest(requestURL)
}
override func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWithRequest request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool {
if navigationType == .linkClicked
{
print("You clicked a hypelink!")
}
return true
}
}
The code in viewDidLoad() opens the loads the main URL (http://www.example.com) from my server. That works fine.
override fun webView[…] should detect if a hyperlink is clicked and then print("You clicked a hypelink!").
But unfortunately I'm getting the following errors:
What am I doing wrong? How to get rid of these errors?

Answer 1

please try
for swift 3.0
public func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool
{
if navigationType == .linkClicked
{
}
return true;
}
swift 2.2
internal func webView(webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWithRequest request: NSURLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool
{
if navigationType == .LinkClicked
{
}
return true;
}

Answer 2

This is the working solution (Xcode 7.3.1 and Swift 2.2):
func webView(webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWithRequest request: NSURLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool {
if request.URL?.query?.rangeOfString("target=external") != nil {
if let url = request.URL {
UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(url)
return false
}
}
return true
}
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Answer 3

I think you can solve with this code:
function reportBackToObjectiveC(string)
{
var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.setAttribute("src", "callback://" + string);
document.documentElement.appendChild(iframe);
iframe.parentNode.removeChild(iframe);
iframe = null;
}
var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
links[i].addEventListener("click", function() {
reportBackToObjectiveC("link-clicked");
}, true);
}
in ios code:
if ([[[request URL] scheme] isEqualToString:#"callback"]) {
[self setNavigationLeavingCurrentPage:YES];
return NO;
}
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