[swift-users] FlatMap and Casting

[Nate Birkholz]

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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