I have a form where the user enters their address. While they can always enter it manually, I also wanted to provide them with an easy solution with auto complete so that they could just start typing their address and then tap on the correct one from the list and have it auto populate the various fields.
I started by working off of jnpdx's Swift5 solution - https://stackoverflow.com/a/67131376/11053343
However, there are two issues that I cannot seem to solve:
I need the results to be limited to the United States only (not just the continental US, but the entire United States including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico). I am aware of how MKCoordinateRegion works with the center point and then the zoom spread, but it doesn't seem to work on the results of the address search.
The return of the results provides only a title and subtitle, where I need to actually extract all the individual address information and populate my variables (i.e. address, city, state, zip, and zip ext). If the user has an apt or suite number, they would then fill that in themselves. My thought was to create a function that would run when the button is tapped, so that the variables are assigned based off of the user's selection, but I have no idea how to extract the various information required. Apple's docs are terrible as usual and I haven't found any tutorials explaining how to do this.
This is for the latest SwiftUI and XCode (ios15+).
I created a dummy form for testing. Here's what I have:
import SwiftUI
import Combine
import MapKit
class MapSearch : NSObject, ObservableObject {
@Published var locationResults : [MKLocalSearchCompletion] = []
@Published var searchTerm = ""
private var cancellables : Set<AnyCancellable> = []
private var searchCompleter = MKLocalSearchCompleter()
private var currentPromise : ((Result<[MKLocalSearchCompletion], Error>) -> Void)?
override init() {
super.init()
searchCompleter.delegate = self
searchCompleter.region = MKCoordinateRegion()
searchCompleter.resultTypes = MKLocalSearchCompleter.ResultType([.address])
$searchTerm
.debounce(for: .seconds(0.5), scheduler: RunLoop.main)
.removeDuplicates()
.flatMap({ (currentSearchTerm) in
self.searchTermToResults(searchTerm: currentSearchTerm)
})
.sink(receiveCompletion: { (completion) in
//handle error
}, receiveValue: { (results) in
self.locationResults = results
})
.store(in: &cancellables)
}
func searchTermToResults(searchTerm: String) -> Future<[MKLocalSearchCompletion], Error> {
Future { promise in
self.searchCompleter.queryFragment = searchTerm
self.currentPromise = promise
}
}
}
extension MapSearch : MKLocalSearchCompleterDelegate {
func completerDidUpdateResults(_ completer: MKLocalSearchCompleter) {
currentPromise?(.success(completer.results))
}
func completer(_ completer: MKLocalSearchCompleter, didFailWithError error: Error) {
//currentPromise?(.failure(error))
}
}
struct MapKit_Interface: View {
@StateObject private var mapSearch = MapSearch()
@State private var address = ""
@State private var addrNum = ""
@State private var city = ""
@State private var state = ""
@State private var zip = ""
@State private var zipExt = ""
var body: some View {
List {
Section {
TextField("Search", text: $mapSearch.searchTerm)
ForEach(mapSearch.locationResults, id: \.self) { location in
Button {
// Function code goes here
} label: {
VStack(alignment: .leading) {
Text(location.title)
.foregroundColor(Color.white)
Text(location.subtitle)
.font(.system(.caption))
.foregroundColor(Color.white)
}
} // End Label
} // End ForEach
} // End Section
Section {
TextField("Address", text: $address)
TextField("Apt/Suite", text: $addrNum)
TextField("City", text: $city)
TextField("State", text: $state)
TextField("Zip", text: $zip)
TextField("Zip-Ext", text: $zipExt)
} // End Section
} // End List
} // End var Body
} // End Struct
