FlatMap and Casting

Using Swift
1

myView.layer.sublayers returns an array of CALayer objects. Some of my
sublayers are CAShapeLayers. I want to act on the CAShapeLayer objects.

Shouldn't flatMap allow me to conditionally cast CALayers to CAShapeLayers?
i.e.

let layers = myView.layer.sublayers.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer })

The compiler warns "Cast from '[CALayer]' to unrelated type 'CAShapeLayer'
always fails"

So it looks like $0 is the array itself.

This works:

let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.filter({ $0 is CAShapeLayer }).map({
$0 as? CAShapeLayer })

But I thought FlatMap should do it in a single step.

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Nate Birkholz

2

Since sublayers are optional you’re calling the the flatMap function on Optionals, which behaves differently.

let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer }) // sublayers?. instead of sublayers.

should fix the problem :)

- Dennis

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On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Nate Birkholz via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

myView.layer.sublayers returns an array of CALayer objects. Some of my sublayers are CAShapeLayers. I want to act on the CAShapeLayer objects.

Shouldn't flatMap allow me to conditionally cast CALayers to CAShapeLayers? i.e.
let layers = myView.layer.sublayers.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer })

The compiler warns "Cast from '[CALayer]' to unrelated type 'CAShapeLayer' always fails"

So it looks like $0 is the array itself.

This works:
let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.filter({ $0 is CAShapeLayer }).map({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer })

But I thought FlatMap should do it in a single step.

--
Nate Birkholz
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3

I would swear I had marked the optional initially with the same result, but
it works, so apparently I didn't!

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Dennis Weissmann <dennis@dennisweissmann.me > wrote:

Since sublayers are optional you’re calling the the flatMap function on
Optionals, which behaves differently.

let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer }) //
sublayers?. instead of sublayers.

should fix the problem :)

- Dennis

On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Nate Birkholz via swift-users < > swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

myView.layer.sublayers returns an array of CALayer objects. Some of my
sublayers are CAShapeLayers. I want to act on the CAShapeLayer objects.

Shouldn't flatMap allow me to conditionally cast CALayers to
CAShapeLayers? i.e.

let layers = myView.layer.sublayers.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer })

The compiler warns "Cast from '[CALayer]' to unrelated type 'CAShapeLayer'
always fails"

So it looks like $0 is the array itself.

This works:

let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.filter({ $0 is CAShapeLayer }).map({
$0 as? CAShapeLayer })

But I thought FlatMap should do it in a single step.

--
Nate Birkholz
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swift-users@swift.org
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