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Trevor Duersch
9,964 PointsIs flatMap deprecated?
Is flatMap depcreated? I am currently in the video on closures and reviewing the "Flat Map" video - https://teamtreehouse.com/library/flat-map . I got a warning saying that flatMap was deprecated and I should use compactMap. Once I changed the code from "flatMap" to "compactMap", the functionality was still there and the warning went away.
2 Answers
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 PointsCorrect. In essence, flatMap was just renamed to compactMap because it makes more sense. From this method, you only get the non-nil results of the closure passed in. nil is left out of the resulting array.
Omar De Yamlor
10,978 Points@Caleb : not really the same result, it doesn't flatten the array of array to an array. In the video example, the type of tags is :
-
[[String]]when usingcompactMap -
[String]when usingflatMap
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 PointsflatMap is deprecated for operations that returned an optional. Previously you could use .flatMap and if the closure returned an optional, any nil values would not appear in the resulting array. This was simply renamed to compactMap.
In the case that you are talking about, that is correct, you use flatMap to convert [[Element]] to [Element].