sort array of anyobject Swift 3 - ios

Question

I am trying to sort an array of anyobject, but not able to do it.I get some data from Parse database in AnyObject format. As per below data, I want to sort this AnyObject array by "NAME". Below is my code -
let sortedArray = (myArray as! [AnyObject]).sorted(by: { (dictOne, dictTwo) -> Bool in
let d1 = dictOne["NAME"]! as AnyObject; // this line gives error "Ambiguous use of subscript"
let d2 = dictTwo["NAME"]! as AnyObject; // this line gives error "Ambiguous use of subscript"
return d1 < d2
})
myArray looks like this -
{
LINK = "www.xxx.com";
MENU = Role;
"MENU_ID" = 1;
NAME = "A Name";
SUBMENU = "XXX";
"Training_ID" = 2;
},
{
LINK = "www.xyz.com";
MENU = Role;
"MENU_ID" = 2;
NAME = "B name";
SUBMENU = "jhjh";
"Training_ID" = 6;
},
{
LINK = "www.hhh.com";
MENU = Role;
"MENU_ID" = 3;
NAME = "T name";
SUBMENU = "kasha";
"Training_ID" = 7;
},
{
LINK = "www.kadjk.com";
MENU = Role;
"MENU_ID" = 5;
NAME = "V name";
SUBMENU = "ksdj";
"Training_ID" = 1;
},
{
LINK = "www.ggg.com";
MENU = Role;
"MENU_ID" = 4;
NAME = "K name";
SUBMENU = "idiot";
"Training_ID" = 8;
},
{
LINK = "www.kkk.com";
MENU = Role;
"MENU_ID" = 6;
NAME = "s name";
SUBMENU = "BOM/ABOM/BSM";
"Training_ID" = 12;
}
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

It's not [AnyObject] (array of I-have-no-idea), it's array of dictionaries [[String:Any]]. Be more specific, this resolves the error.
In Swift 3 the compiler must know the specific type of all subscripted objects.
let sortedArray = (myArray as! [[String:Any]]).sorted(by: { (dictOne, dictTwo) -> Bool in
let d1 = dictOne["NAME"]! as String
let d2 = dictTwo["NAME"]! as String
return d1 < d2
})

Answer 2

Why are converting array to [AnyObject] instead of that convert the array to the [[String:Any]] means Array of Dictionary and tell the compiler that array contains Dictionary as objects.
if let array = myArray as? [[String:Any]] {
let sortedArray = array.sorted(by: { $0["NAME"] as! String < $1["NAME"] as! String })
}
Note: As of you are having NAME key with String value in your each dictionaries of array I have force wrapped it with the subscript.

Answer 3

You can use below function if you want
//function to sort requests
func sortRequests(dataToSort: [[String:Any]]) -> [[String:Any]] {
print("i am sorting the requests...")
var returnData = [[String:Any]]()
returnData = dataToSort
returnData.sort{
let created_date0 = $0["date"] as? Double ?? 0.0
let created_date1 = $1["date"] as? Double ?? 0.0
return created_date0 > created_date1
}
return returnData
}