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Christian A. Castro
Christian A. Castro
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Posted by Christian A. Castro
Christian A. Castro
30,501 Points

Ambiguous type name 'Index' in 'Array' PLEASE HELP!!! Mutating the Data Source | Introduction to Table Views

For some reason I'm having a problem with the outerIndex and innerIndex declarations. Error "Ambiguous type name 'Index' in 'Array'"..

I have been looking around, but apparently there's no answer or good explanation for it.

Apparently there was a typealias keyword used before, however I still getting the same error message..

var outIndex: Array.Index? = nil

However I still getting the same error message... "Ambiguous type name 'index' in Array'"

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,711 Points

Hi Christian,

I could do with a link to the course you're doing but have you tried .index rather than .Index? i.e. no capitalisation.

Steve.

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Brandon Mahoney
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Brandon Mahoney
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Brandon Mahoney
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Brandon Mahoney
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 30,149 Points

It appears this is mostly abstracted away now. You just need to get the index path then the object itself and update from there.

extension ContactListController: ContactDetailControllerDelegate {
    func didMarkAsFavoriteContact(_ contact: Contact) {
        guard let indexPath = dataSource.indexPath(for: contact) else {
            return
        }

        var favoriteContact = dataSource.object(at: indexPath)
        favoriteContact.isFavorite = true

        dataSource.updateContact(favoriteContact, at: indexPath)
        tableView.reloadData()
    }
}