Optionals inside Dictionary where Value = Any

Using Swift
1

I’m storing an Int? inside a [String:Any] but I can’t retrieve it again. Is this expected behaviour or a bug in Swift?

/Daniel

% swift
Welcome to Apple Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 3ebdbb2c7e, Clang f66c5bb67b, Swift 1f2908b4f7). Type :help for assistance. 3> let d: [String:Any] = ["foo": (nil as Int?)]
d: [String : Any] = 1 key/value pair {
  [0] = {
    key = "foo"
    value = {
      payload_data_0 = 0x0000000000000000
      payload_data_1 = 0x636c6f6f542f7201
      payload_data_2 = 0x77732f736e696168
      instance_type = 0x00000001004f6028
    }
  }
}
  4> let v = d["foo"]
v: Any? = Some {
  payload_data_0 = 0x0000000000000000
  payload_data_1 = 0x0000000000000001
  payload_data_2 = 0x0000000000000000
  instance_type = 0x00000001004f6028
}

2

I’m storing an Int? inside a [String:Any] but I can’t retrieve it again. Is this expected behaviour or a bug in Swift?

/Daniel

% swift
Welcome to Apple Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 3ebdbb2c7e, Clang f66c5bb67b, Swift 1f2908b4f7). Type :help for assistance. 3> let d: [String:Any] = ["foo": (nil as Int?)]
d: [String : Any] = 1 key/value pair {
  [0] = {
    key = "foo"
    value = {
      payload_data_0 = 0x0000000000000000
      payload_data_1 = 0x636c6f6f542f7201
      payload_data_2 = 0x77732f736e696168
      instance_type = 0x00000001004f6028
    }
  }
}
  4> let v = d["foo"]
v: Any? = Some {
  payload_data_0 = 0x0000000000000000
  payload_data_1 = 0x0000000000000001
  payload_data_2 = 0x0000000000000000
  instance_type = 0x00000001004f6028
}

I think this is a bug, but not in the code that you are showing. 'v'
is correctly typed as 'Any?'. The issue is that the compiler does not
allow it to be downcast to 'Int?':

v! as Int?

<REPL Input>:1:2: error: cannot convert value of type 'Any' (aka
'protocol<>') to type 'Int?' in coercion
v! as Int?

Would you mind filing a bug?

Dmitri

···

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Daniel Eggert via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

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3

I filed “Can not retrieve Optinals from [String:Any] Dictionary”:
<Issues · apple/swift-issues · GitHub;

/Daniel

···

On 06 Jan 2016, at 12:20, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Daniel Eggert via swift-users > <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:

I’m storing an Int? inside a [String:Any] but I can’t retrieve it again. Is this expected behaviour or a bug in Swift?

/Daniel

% swift
Welcome to Apple Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 3ebdbb2c7e, Clang f66c5bb67b, Swift 1f2908b4f7). Type :help for assistance. 3> let d: [String:Any] = ["foo": (nil as Int?)]
d: [String : Any] = 1 key/value pair {
[0] = {
   key = "foo"
   value = {
     payload_data_0 = 0x0000000000000000
     payload_data_1 = 0x636c6f6f542f7201
     payload_data_2 = 0x77732f736e696168
     instance_type = 0x00000001004f6028
   }
}
}
4> let v = d["foo"]
v: Any? = Some {
payload_data_0 = 0x0000000000000000
payload_data_1 = 0x0000000000000001
payload_data_2 = 0x0000000000000000
instance_type = 0x00000001004f6028
}

I think this is a bug, but not in the code that you are showing. 'v'
is correctly typed as 'Any?'. The issue is that the compiler does not
allow it to be downcast to 'Int?':

v! as Int?

<REPL Input>:1:2: error: cannot convert value of type 'Any' (aka
'protocol<>') to type 'Int?' in coercion
v! as Int?

Would you mind filing a bug?