call a private static method on an instance of a class in swift

In Swift, you cannot call a private static method on an instance of a class directly. However, you can call the private static method by first getting a reference to the class itself, and then calling the static method on this reference.

Here's an example code snippet:

main.swift
class MyClass {
    private static func myPrivateMethod() {
        print("This is a private static method.")
    }
    
    func callPrivateMethod() {
        // Call private static method on class reference
        MyClass.myPrivateMethod()
    }
}

let myInstance = MyClass()
myInstance.callPrivateMethod() // Output: "This is a private static method."
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In this example, we have a MyClass that has a private static method myPrivateMethod(). Since the method is private and static, we cannot call it directly on an instance of the class. Instead, we define a new method callPrivateMethod() in the class, which calls myPrivateMethod() using the class reference (MyClass.myPrivateMethod()).

We then create an instance of MyClass and call the callPrivateMethod() on this instance. This will output "This is a private static method." to the console, demonstrating that we were able to call the private static method indirectly from an instance of the class.