[swift-users] Can I do dynamic casting?

[CK TUNG]

Since Array is a generic struct, the compiler needs know which type to use as the generic parameter.

What I think is do something like this below

let array:Array<Int> = [1,2,3,4,5]
let dictionary:[String:Any] = ["numbers":array]

if let value = dictionary["numbers"] {
  let type = value.dynamicType
  print(type)
  if let numbers = value as? Array<Int> {
        print(numbers + [99])
    }
  else if let numbers = value as? Array<String> {
        print(numbers + ["99"])
  }
}

On Aug 25, 2016, at 08:39 PM, Zhao Xin via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

Thanks, Jordan. Is there any other way to do that?

Zhaoxin

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Johan Segerfeldt <Johan.Segerfeldt at fiwe.se> wrote:
Zhaoxin,

You are trying to cast to a type which is defined by a variable at runtime.
Casting with `as` is done at compile-time. The variable has no defined value at this time.

The compiler cannot infer what the value of a variable is going to be.
It can only infer types by static analysis.


Regards
Johan

> Is that possible to do dynamic casting?
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> > letnumbers = valueas!Array<Int>// [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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> > //let numbers2 = value as! type // error: use of undeclared type 'type'
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> > }
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> As you can see, the dynamic casting leads an error. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
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