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iOS Swift 2.0 Enumerations and Optionals Introduction to Optionals Initializing Optional Values

Posted by ALEKSANDR KONAKOV
ALEKSANDR KONAKOV
Courses Plus Student 2,555 Points

Tried the code in a playground of Xcode 7 - it's OK. Don't see any errors in a preview Window here.

struct Book {
    let title: String
    let author: String
    let price: String?
    let pubDate: String?

    init?(arr: [String : String]) {
      if arr["title"] == nil {return nil}
      if arr["author"] == nil {return nil}
      self.title = arr["title"]!
      self.author = arr["author"]!
      self.price = arr["price"]
      self.pubDate = arr["pubDate"]
    }
}

I'd very appreciate if you could tell me where I'm wrong.

ALEKSANDR KONAKOV
ALEKSANDR KONAKOV
Courses Plus Student 2,555 Points

ok. it should be dict instead of arr - I know :)

1 Answer

Jens Hagfeldt
Jens Hagfeldt
16,548 Points
Jens Hagfeldt
Jens Hagfeldt
16,548 Points

Hi ALEKSANDR

Yes you should use dict instead of arr if you want to pass the code challenge... Naming is crucial.

Also when checking your non-optional keys, instead of using if arr["title"] == nil {return nil} try in using the guard syntax that Pasan showed us in the previous video to check for that first instead. I've included the code for that down here below...

guard let bookTitle = dict["title"], bookAuthor = dict["author"] else {
   return nil
}

I hope this helped a bit... Happy coding!

/ Jens