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Endi Hıdır
1,762 PointsI can't understand this question. Can someone help me please ?
QUESTION: In the editor, you have a struct named Book which has few stored properties, two of which are optional.
Your task is to create a failable initializer that accepts a dictionary of type [String : String] as input and initializes all the stored properties. (Hint: A failable init method is one that can return nil and is written as init?).
Use the following keys to retrieve values from the dictionary: "title", "author", "price", "pubDate"
Note: Give your initializer argument the name dict
struct Book {
let title: String
let author: String
let price: String?
let pubDate: String?
init?(dict: [String: String]) {
if let title = dict["title"], let author = dict["author"], let price = dict["price"], let pubDate = dict["pubDate"]
{
Book(dict: [title: title])
Book(dict: [author: author])
Book(dict: [price: price])
Book(dict: [pubDate: pubDate])
}
return nil
}
}
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1,762 PointsI follow your advices and did something. However I still take a "Bummer : Try again" error Please if you know this question's answer, can you write the right answer ? My Codes:
struct Book { let title: String let author: String let price: String? let pubDate: String?
init?(dict: [String: String]) {
let title = dict["title"]
self.title = title!
if title == nil {
return nil
}
else
{
Book(dict: [self.title: title!])
}
let author = dict["author"]
self.author = author!
if author == nil {
return nil
}
else{
Book(dict: [self.author: author!])
}
if let price = dict["price"], let pubDate = dict["pubDate"]
{
self.price = price
self.pubDate = pubDate
Book(dict: [self.price!: price])
Book(dict: [self.pubDate!: pubDate])
}
else
{
return nil
}
}
}
Amazon Web
iOS Development Techdegree Student 4,092 Pointsinit?(dict: [String: String] {
guard let title = dict["title"], let author = dict["author"] else {
return nil
}
self.title = title
self.author = author
self.price = dict["price"]
self.pubDate = dict["pubDate"]
}
You will notice that on the first statement in the failable init method, I check if the two non optional properties are not nil (if nil return a nil), then I assign to the properties the unwrapped value I get from the guard statement. I didn't check the value of price and pubDate because these are optionals (so they can be nil),
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1,762 PointsThank you so much Amazon Web
Amazon Web
iOS Development Techdegree Student 4,092 PointsAmazon Web
iOS Development Techdegree Student 4,092 PointsYou need to focus on your properties, you will notice that the title and author are not optional so you need to check if the value of these properties are nil on your failable initializer. If the two properties that is not optional are nil, so you need to return a nil value. But if price and pubDate are nil, no worries! you should not return a nil.
In a nutshell, you need to check the title and author if nil, if these are nil the initialization will failed. However if the title and author have values and the rest are nil you should still continue the initialization of the struct.