'View' is ambiguous for type lookup in this context

[ainopara]

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Issue Description

What

#1304 introduce some public type alias which conflict with some components in SwiftUI (View, Color and Button). As a result, any file in host app who imports both Kingfisher and SwiftUI, needs to add module name before those basic SwiftUI components, which leads to inconvenience.

Reproduce

1. Create a project and intergrate Kingfisher and its subspec Kingfisher/SwiftUI with CocoaPods.
2. Create a SwiftUI file which import both SwiftUI and Kingfisher.

Other Comment

Is there workaroud to this issue? Thanks.

[onevcat]

It is the cost to maintain the semantic version. To resolve it, you can only import the type you need from Kingfisher instead of importing all. Like:

import class Kingfisher.KingfisherManager

[ainopara]

ok, thank you for your quick reply. By the way, is there a plan to release Kingfisher 6.0?

[onevcat]

Not that soon.

[ismyhc]

It is the cost to maintain the semantic version. To resolve it, you can only import the type you need from Kingfisher instead of importing all. Like:

import class Kingfisher.KingfisherManager

Hi, I don't quite understand what to do here. Was not having any issues until the latest release. For instance, Im just using KFImage and Get the same 'View' is ambiguous for type lookup in this context.

Basically I:

import SwiftUI
import Kingfisher

How would I import Kingfisher now?

[ismyhc]

It is the cost to maintain the semantic version. To resolve it, you can only import the type you need from Kingfisher instead of importing all. Like:

import class Kingfisher.KingfisherManager

Hi, I don't quite understand what to do here. Was not having any issues until the latest release. For instance, Im just using KFImage and Get the same 'View' is ambiguous for type lookup in this context.

Basically I:

import SwiftUI
import Kingfisher

How would I import Kingfisher now?

Just figured something out. When using CocoaPods, I could figure out how to import. But when using SPM I can just import with KingfisherSwiftUI and everything works fine.

[onevcat]

Yes. If you only use types from KingfisherSwiftUI and not import Kingfisher at all, you will not get any ambiguous for type definitions.