<div dir="ltr">I would swear I had marked the optional initially with the same result, but it works, so apparently I didn't!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Dennis Weissmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennis@dennisweissmann.me" target="_blank">dennis@dennisweissmann.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Since sublayers are optional you’re calling the the flatMap function on Optionals, which behaves differently.<div><br></div><div>let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer })<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">                </span>// sublayers?. instead of sublayers.</div><div><br></div><div>should fix the problem :)</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:53 PM, Nate Birkholz via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">myView.layer.sublayers returns an array of CALayer objects. Some of my sublayers are CAShapeLayers. I want to act on the CAShapeLayer objects.<div><br></div><div>Shouldn't flatMap allow me to conditionally cast CALayers to CAShapeLayers? i.e. </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>let layers = myView.layer.sublayers.flatMap({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer })</div><div><br></div></blockquote>The compiler warns "Cast from '[CALayer]' to unrelated type 'CAShapeLayer' always fails"<div><br></div><div>So it looks like $0 is the array itself. <br><div><br clear="all"><div>This works: </div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div>let layers = myView.layer.sublayers?.filter({ $0 is CAShapeLayer }).map({ $0 as? CAShapeLayer }) <br></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>But I thought FlatMap should do it in a single step.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Nate Birkholz</div>
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