Swift 3 - Sequence ambiguous without more context - ios

Question

I tried to create a custom iterator which returns wrapper abcContainer over raw data class abc
// raw data class
class abc {
var name : String = "";
init( _ value : String) {
name = value;
}
}
// with container, only "name" is to be visible
class abcContainer {
private var _abc : abc;
init( _ obj : abc) {
_abc = obj;
}
// + extra methods here
func getName() -> String {
return _abc.name
}
}
The point would be that the dictionary would return instances of abcContainer instead of just the plain raw abc class.
I wanted to use the sequence protocol to make the conversion automatic, but I was not able to transform the [String:abc] into [String:abcContainer] automatically like this:
// the iterator is implemented just iterating the inner basic dict
// but wrapping the result value as abcContainer
class abcIterator : Sequence, IteratorProtocol {
private var __source : [String:abc]?;
var index = 0
var myIterator : DictionaryIterator<String, abc>;
init(_ ctxArray: [String:abc]) {
self.__source = ctxArray
index = 0;
myIterator = (__source?.makeIterator())!
}
func next() -> abcContainer? {
let nextItem = myIterator.next();
if(nextItem != nil) {
return abcContainer((nextItem?.value)!);
}
return nil;
}
}
// this was supposed to be the wrapper over the collection
class abcCollection : Sequence {
private var __source : [String:abc]?;
init(_ list: [String:abc]) {
self.__source = list
}
func makeIterator() -> abcIterator {
return abcIterator(self.__source!);
}
}
I'm probably missing something very basic here. When I try to use the collection like this:
var dict : [String:abc] = [String:abc]();
dict["abba"] = abc("John Smith");
for (key,value) in abcCollection(dict) {
print(key, value.getName());
}
I get error: Expression type "abcCollection" is ambiguous without more context
Does anyone have idea how to make it work? What is missing? I have a feeling that this answer has the information I need...
Swift 2 to 3 Migration for Swift Sequence Protocol

Answer 1

The problem in your original code is that abcCollection(dict)
returned a sequence of abcContainer objects, and those cannot
be assigned to a (key, value) tuple.
You can achieve your goal with
class abcCollection : Sequence {
private var __source : [String:abc]
init(_ list: [String:abc]) {
self.__source = list
}
public func makeIterator() -> AnyIterator<(AnyObject,abcContainer)> {
let mapped = self.__source.lazy.map {
($0.key as AnyObject, abcContainer($0.value))
}
return AnyIterator(mapped.makeIterator())
}
}
Making __source non-optional makes all the (optional) unwrappings
redundant, and lazy.map { ... } returns a lazily evaluated
sequence of key/value pairs which is then type-erased.

Answer 2

Ok, perhaps the answer was abcIterator was not necessary, you could have defined the iterator directly just like done in the linked answer like this:
class abcCollection : Sequence {
private var __source : [String:abc]?;
init(_ list: [String:abc]) {
self.__source = list
}
public func makeIterator() -> AnyIterator<(AnyObject,abcContainer)> {
var it = self.__source?.makeIterator();
return AnyIterator {
let n = it?.next();
if n == nil { return nil }
return (n?.key as AnyObject, abcContainer((n?.value)!))
}
}
}
After that, the custom collection returned wrapped objects correctly.