SOLVED: day 15: optional downcasting in array

@rabinexpressoSwift

Oct '21

for album in allAlbums as? [LiveAlbum] ?? [LiveAlbum]() {
    print("Running?")
    print(album.location)
}

hi, the loop does not print anything.

Initially, i thought the for loop will check whether each array element in allAlbums is LiveAlbum or not. And if it is true, it executes the code within the for loop. But, it seems this is not true from my testing.

Is the array statement checking whether ALL array elements are LiveAlbum subclass? And only if they are ALL LiveAlbum subclass, the code within the for loop gets executed?

@roosterboy HWS+

Oct '21

Is the array statement checking whether ALL array elements are LiveAlbum subclass? And only if they are ALL LiveAlbum subclass, the code within the for loop gets executed?

Yep. That's why you have to supply [LiveAlbum]() with nil coalescing in case the cast fails; you are attempting to typecast the entire array at once and need something there in case it fails.

If you wanted to just print the items in allAlbums which are a LiveAlbum, you could do this:

for album in allAlbums where album is LiveAlbum {
    //this acts as a filter but doesn't typecast album,
    //so we have to cast inside the loop
    print((album as! LiveAlbum).location) //force cast is safe here
}

@rabinexpressoSwift

Oct '21

ok, cool thanks @roosterboy

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