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iOS Network Programming with Swift 2 Modeling Forecast Data An Icon Enum

Posted by Christian Heine
Christian Heine
17,520 Points

Would it not be more elegant to avoid switching over all the raw values?

Since the raw values are already defined, I feel it would be better to use something like this:

    init(value: String) {
        if let icon = WeatherIcon.init(rawValue: value) {
            self = icon
        } else {
            self = .UnexpectedType
        }
    }

Is there a particular reason, why the switching-over- rawValues-approach was used?

1 Answer

David Lin
David Lin
35,864 Points
David Lin
David Lin
35,864 Points

Good point ... Maybe Pasan was just demonstrating how to override a default fallible initializer to a non-fallible one. But your solution is good, too.