On Feb 14, 2017, at 00:26 , Daryle Walker <dary...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> But I can’t call the “super” versions of those other initializers from within 
> my override.

This is the essence of your problem. Your “override” cannot be a convenience 
initializer because convenience initializers cannot call “up” to the 
superclass, and it cannot be a designated initializer because designated 
initializers cannot call convenience initializers. For one solution, see here:

        
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38908902/overwriting-nsdocuments-initcontentsofoftype-in-swift
 
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38908902/overwriting-nsdocuments-initcontentsofoftype-in-swift>

Answering the same question in another way, look at the comments for 
init(type:) in the NSDocument header file:

> "Initialize a new empty document of a specified type, and return it if 
> successful. If not successful, return nil after setting *outError to an 
> NSError that encapsulates the reason why the document could not be 
> initialized. The default implementation of this method just invokes [self 
> init] and [self setFileType:typeName].”


This tells you exactly what the superclass convenience initializer does, and 
the fact that it’s in the header file makes the behavior a public API contract. 
So, you are allowed to implement your own subclass convenience initializer 
(that throws) which does *not* invoke super, but simply does what the super 
method is documented to do. (That’s basically the solution given on Stack 
Overflow.)
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