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Victor Wang
4,893 PointsCode Challenge
Can someone please explain to me what is required of me to do in this code challenge? I don't exactly understand the requirement here. Thank you!
" We're writing an app to fetch the most recent blog posts from the Treehouse blog. This requires making a network request using asynchronous methods that execute in the background. For that we need a closure. Create a method called fetchTreehouseBlogPosts, that has a single parameter - a completion handler. The closure has three parameters: a data object containing the results of the request as type NSData!, the HTTP response object from our request as type NSURLResponse!, an error object as type NSError!, and a return type of void. Note: If you prefer to use a typealias to make the method signature clear, name it BlogPostCompletion "
import Foundation
typealias BlogPostCompletion = (NSData!, NSURLResponse!, NSError!) -> Void
func fetchTreehouseBlogPosts(completion: BlogPostCompletion){
}
3 Answers
James Tench
43,891 PointsI noticed in those examples that when the type alias is used later they are wrapped in parentheses. So the parentheses are still there, they are just typing them when using the variable. In the code challenge I made the entire type alias include the parentheses so I could just use the variable.
James Tench
43,891 PointsCheck the type alias. I needs to be wrapped in parentheses to indicate it is a function
Victor Wang
4,893 PointsThanks James, do you mean like this?
typealias BlogPostCompletion = ((NSData!, NSURLResponse!, NSError!) -> Void)
But this doesn't seem to be the problem here, here's an example of the parentheses not being needed.
In the example the following code seems to be legit.
typealias MyFunctionDefinition = (Integer, String) -> Void
Dominic Pettifer
4,338 PointsThis particular code challenge is as buggy as hell. First of all...
typealias BlogPostCompletion = (NSData!, NSURLResponse!, NSError!) -> Void
...is valid syntax according to the Swift compiler, but the code challenge insists you wrap round brackets around it, like so...
typealias BlogPostCompletion = ((NSData!, NSURLResponse!, NSError!) -> Void)
...even though Treehouse's own examples show closure typealias' without the surrounding brackets.
Also step 2 of this code challenge wouldn't accept my code, even though I was certain it was correct. So on a hunch I copied my code to the clipboard, refreshed the page, did Step 1 again, then pasted my code into Step 2 that it previously said was incorrect, and it passed it no problem.
Victor Wang
4,893 PointsHaha, cheers Dominic, great to hear I'm not alone :D
Victor Wang
4,893 PointsVictor Wang
4,893 PointsThank you for your help James! I didn't pay any attention to those parentheses until you mentioned they were there...
I tried different placements for the parentheses in the code challenge and it seems like only your solution (wrapping the entire type alias in parentheses) is valid in the treehouse system.
Again, thank you! :)