Hi everyone,

I'm running into a bit of weird issue around inserting and removing elemnts from an array.

According to the apple docs I would expect removeFirst and append to not cause any issues and just work how it should but obviously I'm missing something.

Most of the time the new elemnt placed with append is inserted at index 0, sometimes its inserted in the middle of the array, see example output.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

var Rosters:[Roster]

public func addNewRandomRoster(){
        print("-------------")
        while Rosters.count > 6 {
            print("Rosters over 6, RC: \(Rosters.count)")
            Rosters.removeFirst(1)
            print("Removed Roster")
            print("RC: \(Rosters.count)")
        }
        let tmp = Roster(id: UUID(), roster: generateWatchRoster())
        Rosters.append(tmp)
        let i = Rosters.firstIndex(where: {$0.id == tmp.id})
        print("Roster inserted at index: \(i!)")
        print("Post Inser RC: \(Rosters.count)")

    }

Output:

-------------
Rosters over 6, RC: 7
Removed Roster
RC: 6
Roster inserted at index: 0
Post Inser RC: 7
-------------
Rosters over 6, RC: 7
Removed Roster
RC: 6
Roster inserted at index: 0
Post Inser RC: 7
-------------
Rosters over 6, RC: 7
Removed Roster
RC: 6
Roster inserted at index: 0
Post Inser RC: 7
-------------
Rosters over 6, RC: 7
Removed Roster
RC: 6
Roster inserted at index: 0
Post Inser RC: 7
-------------
Rosters over 6, RC: 7
Removed Roster
RC: 6
Roster inserted at index: 4
Post Inser RC: 7

The class does use swift data, I will try without it shorly to verify the behaviour.

Yes, this behaviour is fine without swift data....

Anyone have any ideas what is going on in swiftdata land here?

I might try a ring buffer, but I was hoping to avoid the extra managment.

Legend, thanks for the info @NigelGee

May I add a different comment?

Capitalise the names of Classes and Structs. But use camelCase for variable names.

// Here. Don't capitalise your var.
//var Rosters:[Roster]  // <- rosters is a collection of Roster elements.

// Instead
var rosters: [Roster]  // <- Typical convention 

It's a convention widely used in Swift development.

Keep Coding!