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

To access a private static property on an instance of a class in Swift, you can define a static function inside the class that returns the private static property and call that function on the instance.

Here's an example:

main.swift
class MyClass {
    private static var myProperty = "Hello World"
    
    static func getMyProperty() -> String {
        return myProperty
    }
}

let myInstance = MyClass()
let myPropertyValue = MyClass.getMyProperty() // "Hello World"
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In this example, myProperty is a private static variable inside the MyClass class. We define a static function called getMyProperty() inside the class that returns myProperty.

To access myProperty on an instance of the class, we call the getMyProperty() function on the class itself (i.e., using MyClass.getMyProperty()), and not on the instance (myInstance.getMyProperty() would not work because the function is static).

The result of calling MyClass.getMyProperty() is the value of myProperty, which is "Hello World".