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Courses Plus Student 4,219 PointsStill getting tons of errors in the init method, can't fix it?
I am using XCode 6.4 and I added the code that's in the video:
let musicLibrary = MusicModel().library let playlistDictionary = musicLibrary[index] title = playlistDictionary["title"] as String!
That didn't work, I checked the other questions and everyone said to change AS to AS! , so I did this:
let musicLibrary = MusicModel().library let playlistDictionary = musicLibrary[index] title = playlistDictionary["title"] as! String!
That gave me this error: Cannot assign a value of type ‘String!’ to a value of type ‘String?’
as well as this warning on the playlistDictionary line: Constant ‘playlistDictionary’ inferred to have type ‘AnyObject?’, which may be unexpected
I've tried all of the suggestions and can't get this to work. Would be great if someone from Treehouse could updated this code being that I'm paying a monthly fee for this.
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2,555 PointsWhen you change the "as" to an "as!", you need to take the ! operator off of the type that you are casting to. Ex: let musicLibrary = MusicModel().library let playlistDictionary = musicLibrary[index] title = playlistDictionary["title"] as! String
However the best way to do this now is actually using "as?", which will not trigger a runtime error if the value you are accessing is nil.
let musicLibrary = MusicModel().library let playlistDictionary = musicLibrary[index] title = playlistDictionary["title"] as? String