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iOS Enumerations and Optionals in Swift Introduction to Optionals Initializing Optional Values

Shade Wilson
Shade Wilson
9,002 Points
Posted by Shade Wilson
Shade Wilson
9,002 Points

Getting "Bummer! Your code could not be compiled" even though the code is compiling. What am I doing wrong here?

I am unsure what I am doing wrong and why I am getting an error from TreeHouse even though there is no compiler error and seems to run fine in Playground.

Any help/pointers would be much appreciated!

optionals.swift 
struct Book {
    let title: String
    let author: String
    let price: String?
    let pubDate: String?

    init?(dictionary dict: [String : String]) {
      if let title = dict["title"], let author = dict["author"] {
        self.price = dict["price"]
        self.pubDate = dict["pubDate"]
        self.title = title
        self.author = author
      } else {
        return nil
      }
    }

}

1 Answer

Jonathan Ruiz
Jonathan Ruiz
2,998 Points
Jonathan Ruiz
Jonathan Ruiz
2,998 Points

Hi shade you almost got it! All you need is to remove the external name dictionary in the fail-able initializer and it'll pass.